Margaryta Khvostova
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My research project
Challenges to fulfilling human rights obligations in the Ukrainian frontline communities in DonbasPreserving democratic institutions during the armed conflict has been an essential challenge for the Ukrainian government since 2014. Ensuring human rights observation is a crucial component of that task. My research project aims to assess the challenges to human rights implementation in the frontline communities in Donbas since 2014. I will try to determine which rights were prioritized and which, on the contrary, faced systemic violations. The project will also assess how the human rights implementation mechanisms adjusted to the challenges created by the international conflict during different stages of the Russo-Ukrainian war: the hybrid period from 2014 to February 2022 and the full-scale war since February 2022 to account for possible differences in fulfilling human rights obligations during different types of conflict. Thus, it will help to better understand the challenges to human rights implementation and observation in the communities on the frontline of an international conflict.
Supervisors
Preserving democratic institutions during the armed conflict has been an essential challenge for the Ukrainian government since 2014. Ensuring human rights observation is a crucial component of that task. My research project aims to assess the challenges to human rights implementation in the frontline communities in Donbas since 2014. I will try to determine which rights were prioritized and which, on the contrary, faced systemic violations. The project will also assess how the human rights implementation mechanisms adjusted to the challenges created by the international conflict during different stages of the Russo-Ukrainian war: the hybrid period from 2014 to February 2022 and the full-scale war since February 2022 to account for possible differences in fulfilling human rights obligations during different types of conflict. Thus, it will help to better understand the challenges to human rights implementation and observation in the communities on the frontline of an international conflict.
My qualifications
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ResearchResearch interests
Human rights, International Conflict, International Security, Democracy during the war
Indicators of esteem
Breaking Barriers Studentship Award, University of Surrey
Winner of the Polish Foreign Minister's competition for the best MA thesis, Polish MFA
Research interests
Human rights, International Conflict, International Security, Democracy during the war
Indicators of esteem
Breaking Barriers Studentship Award, University of Surrey
Winner of the Polish Foreign Minister's competition for the best MA thesis, Polish MFA
Publications
Additional publications
Margaryta Khvostova (2020) The Contemporary Narrative of Human Rights: Crossroads of Theory and Practice, Lazarski University Press, Warsaw
ISBN: 978-83-66723-12-2
Margaryta Khvostova, Yevhen Mahda (2021) “Thirty Years of Post-Communist Nation-Building in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine” in Meandering in Transition: Thirty Years of Reforms and Identity in Post-Communist Europe by Ostap Kushnir and Oleksandr Pankieiev (eds). Lexington Books
Part of ISBN: 978-1-7936-5074-0
Spasimir Domaradzki, Margaryta Khvostova & David Pupovac (2019) “Karel Vasak’s Generations of Rights and the Contemporary Human Rights Discourse” in Human Rights Review, Issue 20, pages 423–443
Online ISSN: 1874-6306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-019-00565-x
Margaryta Khvostova (2019) Influence of the European Court of Human Rights on the National Legal Systems in Central and Eastern Europe in Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe nr 4 (XVI) Kraków 2019
Margaryta Khvostova (2019) Poland and Ukraine Within the Framework of the European Court of Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis” (2019) in Poland and Ukraine: Common Neighbourhood and Relations by Martin Dahl and Adrian Chojan (eds)
ISBN 978-83-64054-15-0