On August 4, 2025, an event was held at the Media Center Ukraine on the results of the international spring school Resilience League titled “Resilience and Governing the Future: Future Literacy for Improved Crisis Management”.

The press conference was attended by: Olha Kuryshko, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Dmytro Zolotukhin, CEO of the Institute for Post-Information Society, expert on information warfare and competitive intelligence; Andrii Zahorodskyi, communications mentor at the Resilient Ukraine NGO; Oleh Pokalchuk, social psychologist; and Ivan Vartovnyk, executive director of the NGO Resilient Ukraine and project coordinator at the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research.

Yevhen Bondarenko, Head of the Information Support Department of the Mission, moderated the press conference.

At the beginning of the conversation, Yevhen Bondarenko spoke about the Resilience League initiative, particularly the spring school, Resilience and Governing the Future: Future Literacy for Improved Crisis Management, as well as other platform projects.

The Permanent Representative emphasized that shaping public policy, especially when it comes to temporarily occupied territories, is extremely difficult because it focuses on overcoming the consequences of the temporary occupation and crimes committed by the Russian Federation.

“After 2022, the territory under temporary occupation has increased. We understand that the challenges in Crimea continue: they are now spreading to new temporarily occupied territories because the Russian Federation has the same behavioral patterns and is implementing the same approaches to people living in the temporarily occupied territories and to the territories,” Olha Kuryshko emphasized.

Ivan Vartovnyk, executive director of the NGO Steady Ukraine and project coordinator at the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research, presented a report on the results of the Resilience League’s international spring school, Resilience and Governing the Future: Future Literacy for Improved Crisis Management. In his presentation, the speaker reviewed the main sections of the analytical review and shared critical points of the report.

Dmytro Zolotukhin, CEO of the Institute of Post-Information Society NGO and expert on information warfare and competitive intelligence, emphasized the importance of consciously shaping the future in the context of deoccupation. He raised the issue of the influence of the psycho-emotional state of the population on the perception of information and the formation of trust in state institutions. Zolotukhin also stressed the need to adapt communication approaches—not just as a way to send messages, but as a tool for dialogue that considers the emotional background, cultural context, and experience of living under occupation.

Social psychologist Oleh Pokalchuk focused his speech on the psychological aspects of interacting with people living in temporarily occupied territories. He noted that one of the indicators of the resilience of social communities is their ability to spread their narratives, which shape collective identity and support a particular worldview.

Andrii Zahorodskyh, communications mentor at the Resilient Ukraine NGO, shared the unique structure of the Resilience League school and noted that the peculiarity of modern crises is that they are always exceptional.

At the end of the meeting, Olha Kuryshko emphasized that the state policy of deoccupation, the decisions taken regarding the temporarily occupied territories, and the strategic vision for their future must be clearly and consistently communicated to the population, along with an understanding of the importance of dialogue with people who remain under occupation to strengthen trust in the Ukrainian state and ensure the effective return of these regions to peaceful life.