Olha Aivazovska
Ольга Павлівна Айвазовська
Born (1981-02-09) February 9, 1981
CitizenshipUkraine
EducationCherkasy National University; Stanford University; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
OccupationCivil society activist
OrganizationInternational Centre for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV)

Olha Pavlivna Aivazovska (Ukrainian: Ольга Павлівна Айвазовська; born 9 February 1981 in Zalishchyky Raion, Ternopil Oblast), is a Ukrainian civil society activist. As a member and chair of the board of the non-governmental organisation OPORA, she was and is primarily responsible for monitoring elections to ensure freedom and fairness. She also aided in negotiation on the Ukrainian side in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine on the settlement of the military conflict in the Donbas[1] from 2016 to 2018.[2]

Life

Education

Olha Aivazovska initially studied Ukrainian philology and anthropology, and journalism at the National Bohdan Khmelnytskyi University in Cherkasy. In 2016, she completed the Democracy and Human Rights Programme at the Centre for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, California, as part of a Draper Hills Summer Fellowship that she was selected for. From 2020 onwards she studied law at the Graduate Institute of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.[3]

Leadership training

Aivazovska has participated in leadership training programmes, including a project at the Aspen Institute in Kyiv and the Ukrainian School of Political Studies (USPS), a joint venture by the Legislative Initiatives Laboratory and the Council of Europe. The project was launched in 2005 as part of the 10th anniversary of Ukraine's accession to the Council of Europe. The USPS aims to educate and network in hopes of creating a culture of public policy in Ukraine committed to the principles of fairness, trust and dialogue.[4]

Election monitoring and political activity

Since 2001, Aivazovska has been involved in monitoring elections in Ukraine to ensure their validity. From 2000 to 2004, she was head of the regional public youth organisation "Young Enlightenment" in Cherkasy. In 2006, she became a member of the all-Ukrainian non-governmental organisation OPORA. In 2007 she became editor-in-chief of the all-Ukrainian daily newspaper OPORA's Point and in 2009 she became the chairperson of OPORA's board of directors.[5] As of 2022 she remains in this position. Aivazovska led the election monitoring with roughly 25,000 activists in Ukraine and also participated in election monitoring in more than 10 distinct European countries.[6] According to Focus, Aivazovska was on the list of the 100 most powerful women in Ukraine from 2014 to 2020 due to her position in the country's political and social life.[7][8][9][10]

Since 2018, Aivazovska has been a member of the board of the International Renaissance Foundation. As chair of the board, she coordinates the OPORA network's political programmes in 89 countries and 9 regional members in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa. The organisations form this global network through non-partisan, community-based election observation activities to ensure the integrity of electoral processes, strengthen the accountability and provide scrutiny toward governments and political parties, reduce the potential for politically motivated violence and strengthen people's right to participate in government.[11][12]

Since 2020, Aivazovska has been the head of the board at the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors.[13]

In December 2022, Aivazovska opened the 15th Annual Meeting on the implementation of the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation, with a speech about the differences between Ukraine and Russia, and why the former needs to be supported.[14]

In February 2023, Aivazovska, together with NGO OPORA, presented a document at the Munich Security Conference on the strategy of what measures should be taken against Russia to prevent it from attacking other countries again.[15]

Trilateral Contact Group (Minsk)

From 2016 to 2018, Aivazovska aided in negotiations on the settlement of the military conflict in the Donbas as an expert on the Ukrainian side in the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk.

International Centre for Ukrainian Victory

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Aivazovska and Ukrainian civil society leaders Daria Kaleniuk, Olena Halushka, Hanna Hopko established the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV).[16][17][18][19] Olga is one of the main authors of the Manifesto for Sustainable Peace.[20]

The ICUV aims to bolster international backing for Ukraine in resisting Russian aggression, and foster stronger relationships between Ukraine's civil society and the global community. It also provides support to Ukrainian activists and NGOs, while actively promoting a post-war reconstruction plan for Ukraine, encouraging its transformation and advocating for its aspirations to join the European Union and NATO. Aivazovska has made advocacy visits to Africa, Europe, the US, and the UK, and participated in international conferences, and was a speaker at the Warsaw Security Forum 2022.[21]

Aivazovska has become a chief advocates for a special tribunal against the Russian president Vladimir Putin and his associates. She is leading a program that aims to document war crimes by the Russian military by speaking with refugees in Poland.[22][23]

References

  1. ↑ Svyridiuk, Olha; Shumaieva, Svitlana; Svyrydiuk, Vitalii (2022-01-13). "Multicultural Education: Ukrainian Challenges". World Lumen Congress 2021. LUMEN Publishing House. 17: 630–640. doi:10.18662/wlc2021/62. ISBN 9781910129326. S2CID 245943396.
  2. ↑ Gorchinskaya, Katya (2015-04-22). "Champagne Tastes On Beer Incomes: Tax Declarations In Ukraine Suggest Enduring Corruption". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  3. ↑ "Versammlung am 28. Februar 1880", Zweite öffentliche Versammlung der balneologischen Section am 28. und 29. Februar, 1880, De Gruyter, pp. 1–78, 1880-12-31, doi:10.1515/9783112423509-001, ISBN 9783112423509, retrieved 2022-08-18
  4. ↑ Bolle; Matschie; Schalow (1893). "Bericht über die Februar-Sitzung 1893". Journal für Ornithologie (published 1893-02-27). 41 (1): 115–118. doi:10.1007/bf02250339. ISSN 0021-8375. S2CID 12448764.
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  7. ↑ "Frauen und digitale Spiele – die Expertenperspektive", Gender und Gaming, transcript Verlag, pp. 127–194, 2017-12-31, doi:10.1515/9783839439203-004, ISBN 9783839439203, retrieved 2022-08-18
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  9. ↑ "Die medizinische klasse Der ungarischen akademie der wissenschaften veranstaltet unter Mitwirkung der Gesellschaft ungarischer neurologen und psychiater am 7–8. Oktober 1964 Gedenkfeier anlässlich der 100. Jahreswende der geburt des neuropathologen Karl Schaffer (1864–1939) (Budapest, 7–8. Oktober, 1964)". Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2 (2): 212. 1965. doi:10.1016/0022-510x(65)90084-5. ISSN 0022-510X.
  10. ↑ "Kapitel 2. Die Königinnen des Hauses in der Zwischenkriegszeit", Die Frauen in der französischen Gesellschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts, Köln: Böhlau Verlag, pp. 35–64, 2008-08-01, doi:10.7788/boehlau.9783412317461.35, ISBN 978-3-412-07306-0, retrieved 2022-08-18
  11. ↑ 장승진; Jung-ah Gil (2014). "Methodological Re-examination of Vote Choices in the 18th Presidential Election: Did Korean Voters Really Vote Prospectively?". Korea and World Politics. 30 (3): 1–28. doi:10.17331/kwp.2014.30.3.001. ISSN 1225-3006.
  12. ↑ Arnold, Richard (2022-03-14). "Kosakenorganisationen in der heutigen Ukraine". Ukraine-Analysen (263): 26–29. doi:10.31205/ua.263.01. S2CID 247445984.
  13. ↑ "Olha Aivazovska elected as GNDEM Board Chair". ОПОРА – Громадянська мережа – вибори в Україні – Election in Ukraine. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  14. ↑ "Why Ukrainian democracy is worth the investment". Ukrainska Pravda. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  15. ↑ "На Мюнхенській безпековій конференції представлять стратегію того, як уникнути повторного вторгнення рф — «ОПОРА»". hromadske.ua (in Ukrainian). 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  16. ↑ "ICUV". ukrainianvictory.org. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  17. ↑ Górczyńska, Marysia (2022-03-04). "W Warszawie rozpoczęło działalność Międzynarodowe Centrum na rzecz Zwycięstwa Ukrainy". Radio Warszawa 106,2 FM (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  18. ↑ "Olga Aivazovska". International Center for Ukrainian Victory | ICUV. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  19. ↑ "Rigged Russian referendums: Putin's plan to annex occupied Ukraine". ОПОРА – Громадянська мережа – вибори в Україні – Election in Ukraine. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  20. ↑ "Sustainable Peace Manifesto". sustainablepeacemanifesto.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  21. ↑ "Olga Aivazovska". Warsaw Security Forum. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  22. ↑ "Olga Aivazovska". The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  23. ↑ "Злочин і кара. Як притягнути росіян до відповідальності за агресію проти українців? – Українська Служба – polskieradio.pl". polskieradio.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-27.
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