ZOiS Newsletter
February/March 2023
ZOiS Spotlight 4/2023
The Puzzle of Ukrainian Resilience: Hidden Factors and Potential Risks
by Yuliya Bidenko 
Ukrainian resistance on the battlefield is unthinkable without the resilience of Ukrainian citizens. This resilience rests on a bedrock of civil society engagement in the years since 2014, which spurred reforms and the wider societal changes that made such a coordinated response to the Russian invasion possible.

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News
Call for Applications
BMBF/ZOiS Scholarships for Ukrainian Scholars
ZOiS is seeking to fill the positions (m/f/div) of one senior Berlin-based fellow, one junior Berlin-based fellow and three Ukraine-based fellows within the project 'Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS' (UNET), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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Vacancy
IT System Administrator (m/f/d)
ZOiS is looking for an IT System Administrator (m/f/d) to start as soon as possible. The position is to be filled with 100% of the collectively agreed working hours (39h/week) according to TVöD up to pay group 10. The appointment is for an indefinite period. The place of employment is Berlin.

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Publications
ZOiS Spotlight 3/2023
Kosovo and Serbia: Teetering on the Brink of Escalation
by Vedran Dzihic
In recent months, the decades-long tension between Serbia and Kosovo has once again come close to erupting into an armed conflict. A political compromise appears to be an urgent necessity, but for that, the narrative of eternal enmity and intransigence must be redrawn.

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Events
UNET Series (in English) | 1 March 2023, 10:50 am – 12:30 pm | online
Evacuation Alerts: Behavioural Insights from Ukraine
with Volodymyr Vakhitov, Natalia Zaika, Monika Pompeo and Anastasiya Leukhina
Evacuation alerts can be a crucial tool in ensuring the safety of civilians in the context of natural disasters and war. The rapid spread of information can help people escape danger before it's too late. However, there has been a lack of scientific testing to determine how best to design these alerts.

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Medien
Article with assessments by Gwendolyn Sasse in the Huffington Post (24/02/2023)
Interview with Félix Krawatzek for Radio Canada (23/02/2023)
Reporting by Deutschlandfunk with comments by Nadja Douglas (21/02/23)
Regina Elsner participated in NDR's podcast "vertikal horizontal" (17/02/2023)
Contribution by Gwendolyn Sasse for the Security Times at this year's Munich Security Conference (14/02/2023)
Podcast with Gwendolyn Sasse and Yuliya Bidenko for Carnegie Europe (08/02/2023)
 
Links to more media coverage on current topics can be found on our website ZOiS in the Media.