OPERATIONAL SECURITY AND PERSONAL RESILIENCE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE EASTERN NEIGHBORHOOD

This report follows a year of cooperation between civil society organizations (CSO) and think-tanks from Central Europe and the Eastern Neighborhood (EN). It is one part of the Project on Enhancing and Sharing Lessons Learnt in Resilience and Self-Protection, which evaluates the capability of civil society in Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova to use guidance from the European Values Center for Security Policy (EVC) in operational security and exposing illegitimate methods of influence. Here, we adapt their approach and apply it to the political realities in the EN. 

The authors conducted thorough desk research of relevant open source information, public surveys, and investigative reports. The desk research was conducted by structured interviews with relevant experts and local officials. Media representatives as well as foreign policy and security experts from civil society organizations provided most of the information. Due to the sensitivity of the topic, we decided not to publish the list of names of the interviewees, which can be obtained from the editorial team of the European Values Center for Security Policy. 

Author
Georgia: Media Development Foundation – Mariam Pataridze, Sopho Gelava, Tinatin Gogoladze
Moldova: IPIS - Institute for Strategic Initiatives – Victoria Olari
Ukraine: Ukraine Crisis Media Center – Liubov Tsybulska, Oleksandra Tsekhanovska
Operational Security Recommendations: European Values Center for Security Policy team

Editor
Andrea Michalcová, European Values Center for Security Policy

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