Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Tetiana Gardashuk
2023-2024
Home institution
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Country of origin (home institution)
Ukraine
Discipline(s)
Earth, environmental and climate sciences
Philosophy
Theme(s)
Environment, Sustainability & Biodiversity
Human Rights
Peace & conflict
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Tetiana Gardashuk is a professor at H.Skovoroda Institute of Pholosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is currently the Head of the Department of Logic and Methodology of Science at the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Gardashuk's research focuses on the intersection of philosophy and real-world issues, particularly environmental challenges, the ethics of war, and post-war restoration.
Research Project
Environmental Peacebuilding: Methodology and Applicability for Post-War Restoration in Ukraine
Tetiana is a Safe Haven Fellow at NIAS during 2023-2024.
The full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine (24 February 2022) changed the world drastically. The scale of it and its global impact raised numerous questions concerning human rights, international safety, justice, etc., all requiring solutions both urgent and viable in the long- term perspective. The negative humanitarian and environmental impacts of Russian aggression in Ukraine are among them. The war destroys landscapes, ecosystems, habitats, and populations of species. It disrupts the natural life support systems and violates the inherent Nature’s right to exist and the principle of biophilia.
Tetiana Gardashuk considers the war to be an anti-vital phenomenon, and thus a crime against life and “the world as a community” (Mitwelt) [Meyer-Abich, 1993], while peace is a universal and vital value. How can the biophysical environment, nature, and natural resources serve for cooperation, peaceful coexistence, and sustainability? Gardashuk aims to examine available approaches and produce new answers to post-war restoration and environmentally sustainable development in Ukraine, focusing on the concept of environmental peacebuilding (EPB).
Research Interests:
Environmental peacebuilding; war and ecological destruction; post-conflict environmental restoration; rights of nature