I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a scientific research institution, established in December 1991 by decision of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Institute was assigned a task of profound and comprehensive research of problems which acquired special importance after proclamation of independence of Ukraine and connected with needs and processes of formation, development and functioning of Ukrainian state and public society. They include history and modern dynamics of political institutes and processes, correlation between politics, political culture, ethno-national, inter-religious and inter-confessional, regional relations and factors of public life, elaboration of new paradigms of ethno-national development, prevention of ethno-national conflicts, modeling of optimal variants of ethno-politics, development of management technologies for political and inter-ethnic relations, examination of draft laws, state and non-government programs in various spheres of public life, theoretical and methodological aspects of political and ethno-political research, and implementation of their results.