How war unites or divides us

What drives people to engage with each other during wartime?

How and why does war paralyze society's will to resist?

Is war a sentence or a challenge that demands action?

The discussion will focus on the key experiences of the Russian-Ukrainian war, its global context, and the main dangers and challenges of the post-war future.

Wojciech Tochman – Polish reporter.

Author of 10 reportage books, including the post-genocide trilogy "Like Eating a Stone", "Today We`ll Draw Death", and "Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry".

Co-founder of the reporter's bookstore-café and publishing house "Wrzenie Świata" in Warsaw.

Marichka Paplauskaite – Ukrainian reporter, media manager.

Co-founder of The Ukrainians Media, editor-in-chief of the online magazine "Reporters".

Author of the reportage books "God of Amazing People and Other Sinners" and "The Train Arrives on Schedule".

Yurko Prokhasko – literary scholar, psychoanalyst, essayist, publicist, translator.

Corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Arts (Dresden). Co-founder and lecturer at the Lviv Psychoanalytic Institute. Member of PEN Ukraine.

Moderator: Vira Kuryko – Ukrainian reporter, author of documentary books "The Street of the Involved. Chernihiv Case of Lukyanenko", "Mazepa. The Right to the Sword", "A Healthy Person's Reform".

Writes for "Reporters", "Local History", and a number of Ukrainian and foreign publications.

Organizers: Lviv Media Forum, BookForum, Choven Publishing House.