This year the organizers chose a broad theme for the essay, and defined freshness of the approach to developing the topic and ability to emphasize and stress the topic issues logically and reasonably as the main selection criterion.
The Competition Commission selected the winners of the Essay Competition. They are the following:
1. Maria KARPYSHYN, National University of «Kyiv-Mohyla Academy»
(Essay Topic: Guarding Triangle of the World. Reflections on the Fundamental Principles of a Secure Life: Truth, Freedom and Morality)
2. Olena KVIATKOVSKA, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
(Essay Topic: International Development Assistance as a Security Factor)
3. Nataliya LUKACH, Ivan Franko Lviv National University
(Essay Topic: International Human Trafficking as a Security Threat)
4. Elyzaveta SHYLKOVA, Intern at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
(Essay Topic: Corruption – a Threat to the Modern World)
5. Kostyantyn SHPYLKA, Education and Research Institute of Information Security
(Essay Topic: Challenges of the ХХІst Century: How to Protect Information Space?)
Those are the young researchers who will participate in the 6th Kyiv Security Forum, which will take place on April 18-19, 2013, and who will have a chance to communicate with the leading experts, politicians, diplomats and journalists on the key issues of modern world security.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‘Open Ukraine’ Foundation expressed thanks to all competition participants for their interest in our project. In just a few weeks we will see the winners at the Forum!
And with those, who were not winners this year, we can cooperate within other events of the International Dialogue Program. Particularly, lectures of famous diplomats, experts and social leaders, who share their experience with youth, take place every month as part of the Open the World Discussion Club. Moreover, the 2nd Youth Kyiv Security Forum is planned to be hold this autumn.
