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Myshlovska

Oksana MYSHLOVSKA

International History and Politics
Spoken languages
Ukrainian, English, French, Italian, Russian

PROFILE

 

PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Oksana Myshlovska is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern. Earlier in her academic path, she held research and teaching positions at the University of St Gallen, the Graduate Institute and the Global Studies Institute in Geneva. Previously, she also worked at the World Economic Forum and the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance. Her research lies at the intersection of history, conflict and peace studies, memory studies and social psychology. It focuses on memory and history politics, the role of socio-physiological factors and processes of conflict escalation and resolution in the Russia-Ukraine context. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including Nationalities Papers, Ab Imperio, the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity and the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

  • Myshlovska, Oksana (forthcoming). "A Narrow Peace Process That Failed: Conflict Dynamics and Conflict Transformation During the Maidan Protests (November 2013 - February 2014)" International Negotiation.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (forthcoming). “Unreconciled Past: the Revival of Conflict-Related Memories, Dynamics of Political Contention and Failed Reconciliation in Ukraine from the Late 1980s till the mid-2000s”, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2025). “Managing Contested Sovereignty Claims. The Failure of Agonistic Peace and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation During Viktor Yushchenko's Presidency (2005-2010)” in Alexander Meienberger, Sandra King-Savié and Katharina Biegger (Hg.) Mit Osteuropa denken: Kultur, Wissenschaft, Politik. T Frank & Timme: Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur, 401-444.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2024). “Providing Meaning to Violence: Multiple Mobilizations and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation from November 2013 until February 2014 in Ukraine.” Nationalities Papers 52, no. 4 (2024): 735–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2023.5.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2023). “Working Group of Historians at the Governmental Commission on the Study of OUN-UPA Activities / Robocha hrupa istorykiv pry Uryadovii komisii z vyvchennya diyalnosti OUN-UPA” in Stan, Lavinia, and Nadya Nedelsky, eds. Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, volume 3, 646–651. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2022). "Conflict Dynamics as a Narrative Process: The Evolution of Competing Conflict Narratives between Russia and Ukraine and the Narratives of the International Human Rights Bodies between 2014 and 2022." Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 16.3 (2022): 76-107.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2021). "History Education and Reconciliation: The Ukrainian National Underground Movement in Secondary School Curricula, Textbooks, and Classroom Practices (1991–2012)" Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 7(1): 37-74.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2020). “Regionalism in Ukraine: Historic Evolution, Regional Claim-Making, and Centre–Periphery Conflict Resolution”, In: Shelest, Hanna, Rabinovych, Maryna (eds) Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict. Federalism and Internal Conflicts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 17-47. http://doi-org-443.webvpn.fjmu.edu.cn/10.1007/978-3-030-41765-9_2.
  • Liebich, André, Oksana Myshlovska, Viktoriia Sereda, Oleksandra Gaidai, and Iryna Sklokina (2019). "The Ukrainian Past and Present: Legacies, Memory and Attitudes." In Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity, edited by Myshlovska Oksana and Schmid Ulrich, 67-134. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, 2019. doi:10.7829/j.ctvs1g8jn.10.
  • Schmid, Ulrich, and Oksana Myshlovska, eds. (2019) Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press. doi:10.7829/j.ctvs1g8jn.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2019). “Delegitimizing the Communist Past and Building a New Sense of Community: the Politics of Transitional Justice and Memory in Ukraine”, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 7, 372–405. DOI:http://doi.org/10.18352/hcm.561.
  • Myshlovska, Oksana (2018). “Establishing the ‘irrefutable facts’ about the OUN and UPA: the role of the working group of historians on the OUN-UPA activity in mediating memory-based conflict in Ukraine” Ab imperio 1, 223-254. 

 

 
ACTIVITIES 

 

  • Member of the Trilateral Working Group. A dialogue project of scientific collaboration between young scholars from Ukraine and Russia financed by the Swiss FDFA (2021-2022)
  • Investigator, Learning Journey “Governance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts. The Case of Ukraine”, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, and the Swiss Development Agency (2017- 2018)
  • Member of Regionalism in Ukraine network, University of St Gallen (2015-)
  • Member of the FNS multidisciplinary project “Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconsideration of Ukraine” (2012-2015)
  • Member, La Société académique suisse d’étude de l’Europe orientale
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