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We invite submissions for the FOURTH issue (No. 4) of 2025!

2025-10-18

Volume 7 Issue 4 (October-December) "Strategic Challenges of Societal Humanitarian Security: Political, Religious, and Cultural Dimensions"

Key Issues/Topics:

  • The crisis of the liberal international order as a challenge to the humanitarian security of sovereign nations;

  • Threats to social cohesion and political stability in post-war Ukraine: analysis and forecasts;

  • The role of elites in the genesis of militaristic conflicts and the construction of the post-war security architecture;

  • Mechanisms of cultural self-defense and preservation of national identity in the face of existential threats;

  • Information warfare as a strategic threat to the cognitive and psychological security of society;

  • Reflecting the trauma of war in post-war Ukrainian culture: literature, cinema, and art;

  • The instrumentalization of religion as an ideological tool of war and a challenge to humanitarian security;

  • The role of religious institutions in building societal resilience and providing humanitarian aid during the war;

  • Risks of religious radicalization in post-war society and strategies for preserving interfaith peace.

Deadline for submission of materials: November 20, 2025!

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“Skhid” is a peer-reviewed open access journal aimed at multifaceted scientific coverage of a wide range of urgent societal issues in the context of social transformations. The main rubrics cover the fields of philosophy, history, religious studies and other areas of social and humanitarian sciences.

Year of foundation: 1995

Founders: 
Ukrainian Cultural Center (Mariupol); 
Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv).

Language of publication: English.

Frequency of publication:
3 times a year – thematic series “Philosophical Sciences” (February, June, October),
3 times a year – thematic series “Historical Sciences” (April, August, December)

Included in the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine, which can publish the results of dissertations for the degree of doctor and candidate of sciences in the fields: historical and philosophical sciences (CATEGORY “B” List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine in the specialties 032 “History and Archeology”, 031 “Religious Studies”, 033 “Philosophy”).

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