Peculiarities of the use of political mediation in the Russian-Ukrainian war: principles of application and problems of solution

Peculiaridades del uso de la mediación política en la guerra ruso-ucraniana: principios de aplicación y problemas de solución

• Daria Likarchuk Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1603-7601
• Inna Kostyrya Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2654-8472
• Oleg Koval Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9578-1759
• Viktoriia Datsenko Cherkasy State Technological University bul, Cherkasy, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-6951
• Vitaliy Kryvoshein Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3380-7850

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4075.19

Keywords: Russian-Ukrainian war, political mediation, conflict resolution, geopolitics, applied political theory

Abstract

The aim of the article was to investigate the principles of the implementation of diplomatic policy and the problems of the Russian-Ukrainian war settlement by applying the method of mediation. The work is based on the use of both special methods of political research and general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction). With the help of a prognostic method, an attempt was made to characterize the short-term results of the introduction of political mediation in the ongoing Russian- Ukrainian war. The results showed that mediation is a special negotiation technology for resolving political conflicts. The key tasks of mediation in political conflict resolution are neutralization of negative consequences of the confrontation, search for dissonance between the parties and development of a strategy for further actions, etc. It is concluded that, at this stage of the war, political mediation to resolve the problems is possible only due to the military failures of the Russian side and the Ukrainian collaborators supported by it.

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