Victimology of Russian Aggression: Europe in Times of Turbulence” - that was the theme of the open lecture of vice-rector for international relations, professor Viacheslav Tuliakov for academia and students of Tubingen University (Germany).
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused – and is continuously causing – thousands of deaths and injuries among civilians and combats and millions of people fleeing the war. Children, elderly and women are affected in a special way with children turning into orphans, elderly being too weak to flee and lacking sufficient healthcare and women being targets of sexual violence. But victimization does not stop at the Ukrainian borders: Shortage and increase in price of wheat supply leads to food emergency for already indigent world population, potentially provoking a humanitarian crisis and millions of refugees. The spectrum of apparent and subtle victims of aggression is related to a spectrum of apparent and subtle acts of aggression, such as bombing of malls and hospitals, arbitrary killing of civilians or blockage of the Black Sea ports. Hence, consequences are equally diverse: psychological trauma, health consequences, states of anxieties...
How can the extent of victimisation be captured and by whom? And how to respond to it and by whom?
How ought responses on a national and international level look like?
These questions were highlited in the lecture of professor Viacheslav Tuliakov widespreading the ideas of Ukrainian victimology and Odesa Law School.
