Event Highlights: Finding a Way Forward in Belarus
On Thursday, September 3, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Kim Lane Schepelle for a Zoom webinar on recent developments in Belarus in the aftermath Alexander Lukashenko’s re-election last month amidst allegations of ballot rigging. Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies, introduced the discussion in which several area faculty participated, including Volha Charnysh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT, herself from Belarus.
During her lecture Kim Scheppele, who is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values as well as Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University, described the battle for hearts and minds taking place across the nation of Belarus. She discussed the ongoing demonstrations, the brutal police response, the role of women in the opposition movement, and the EU’s response, among other things.