Secularism, emancipation and geopolitics. Presentation of the BISS study on value transformations
Channel: Press Club Belarus
Date: 2021-12-23

The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) has conducted a large-scale study that provides information on value trends in Belarusian society for 30 years.

The study is based on the results of the World Values ​​Survey (WVS) on Belarus for 1990-2020. The latest wave of surveys on Belarus (2018) is analyzed by 10 demographic groups. The study used the concept of human empowerment of authored by the German political scientist, WVS director Christian Welzel, and compared many parameters within three geocultural areas: Western, Eurasian and Central and Eastern European areas.

The presentation will be attended by:

●  Piotr Rudkouski, Academic Director of BISS, Research Coordinator;

●  Tatsiana Urubleuskaja-Toker, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences; 

●  Vital Tsyhankou, political columnist for RFE/RL, host of Razmova on Belsat.

Discussant:

●  Siarhei Nikalyuk - sociologist;

●  Yury Drakakhrust is a political commentator for RFE/RL.

Moderators:

●  Vadim Mojeiko - Candidate of Cultural Studies, analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS);

●  Anton Ruliou – MA in International Relations, Belarus in Focus.