Scale-free social networks maintain the crucial role in sustainability of democratic movement in Ukraine since the establishment of Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976.
4. Scale-free networks
Complex network degree distribution
of random and scale-free
Social Entrepreneurship. Theory and Practice.
Ryszard Praszkier, Andrzej Nowak.
Random network
Small worlds with weak ties
Scale-free network
5. Fragile hierarchies
The structure and function of complex networks.
M. E. J. Newman
Hierarchical organization in
complex networks. Erzsebet
Ravasz and Albert-Laszlo
Barabasi
10. Why Ukr.Dem.Nets evolved?
• Created for countering
existential threat
• Goal seemed
unreachable
• “We cannot possibly
win, but we should fight”
• Dissidents’ toast „For
the success of our
hopeless cause”
11. After the victory
Ukr.Dem.Nets
tried to prolong
its existence
after the goal
was achieved,
but degraded
according to the
same scenario.
Why?
Community detection in graphs. Santo Fortunato
16. Connectors are needed
Ukr.Dem.Nets were connectors, bridges, social
intermediaries for Ukrainian society
We propose Social Intermediary is a new institution
to fill the structural holes
17. Social intermediary concept
Social intermediary as an expert on
preparation and organization of
inclusive multi-stakeholder social
dialogues in local communities in
zones of ongoing or potential violent
conflicts.
18. Oleksa Tykhyj (1927 - 1984), one of
founders of Ukrainian Helsinki Group,
political prisoner, school teacher from
Donbas.
Oleksa Tykhyj Avenue - facilitating
co-decision of local councils of 5
towns of Kramatorsk agglomeration
and Donetsk oblast regional
administration to give a name of a
20. Alumni achievements
They created new practices of dialogues
and joint activities on community security and
sustainable development, integration of internally
displaced persons and displaced universities into
local communities, psychological rehabilitation of
victims of war, civil education, cooperation
between civil and military.
22. Who knows this man?
Vasyl Ovsienko,
political prisoner,
member of Ukrainian
Helsinki Group from
1977, participant of
all the three
revolutions and all
Maidans.
25. Further research ideas
•Mapping social networks of participants of all
3R
My hypothesis – Ukr.Dem.Nets were
better connected and had lower homophily
(more diversity) than average
•Studying the role of anti-development
groups in Ukr.Dem.Nets
Scale-free social networks maintain the crucial role in sustainability of democratic movement in Ukraine since the establishment of Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976.
How the people became the subject in Ukraine
Lets recall the evolution of the democratic movement in Ukraine
Social networks displayed high resilience to Soviet hierarchical repressive institution.
The networks with a hierarchical organization exhibit a greater vulnerability to failures when compared to non-hierarchical models
Scale-free social networks were increasingly important in all Ukrainian Maidans.
Social networks can be presented by graphs and described by formulas, however I am not going into math. Just take a notice of the word „mediation” here.
Explain the pyramid
In the context of social movements, the absence of brokers means that networks would break into isolated components, separated by political or social barriers.
In the context of social movements, the absence of brokers means that networks would break into isolated components, separated by political or social barriers.
Ukr.Dem.Nets transformed into volunteer networks, which are mostly ego-networks.
Volunteer ego-networks
Low social capital due to poor conecteddness
The need of insterting connector nodes
Bridges create paths for information diffusion – if and when they are activated.
In addition, actors occupying brokerage positions need to engage in actual exchange to become information brokers.
We define social intermediary as an expert on preparation and organization of inclusive multi-stakeholder social dialogues in local communities in zones of ongoing or potential violent conflicts.
Oleksa Tykhyj (1927 - 1984), one of founders of Ukrainian Helsinki Group, political prisoner of USSR, school teacher from this region. Oleksa Tykhyj Avenue - facilitating co-decision of local councils of 5 towns of Kramatorsk agglomeration and Donetsk oblast regional administration to give a name of a human rights activist for main street of each location in and the road between them, 46 km total, two years of negotiations.
Alumni achievements:
They created new practices of dialogues and joint activities on community security and sustainable development, integration of internally displaced persons and displaced universities into local communities, psychological rehabilitation of victims of war, civil education, cooperation between civil and military.
Vasyl Ovsienko, political prisoner, member of Ukrainian Helsinki Group from 1977, participant of the three revolutions.
Vasyl Ovsienko, political prisoner, member of Ukrainian Helsinki Group from 1977, participant of the three revolutions.
Minority of participants – organizers, speakers – are studied. We need to study the majority
How the people became the subject in Ukraine
Author was an observer of Revolution on Granite and participant of all other Maidans.