Dr. Olga  N. Pyshchulina

National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kiev, Ukraine

                                    Tel: 38(044)-254-41-26

Economics and Sociology Major Kharkov State University (1989)

 April  2004 – July 2005             

Fulbright New Century Scholars Program -  “Toward Equality: The Global Empowerment of Women” (under a State Department grant), American University, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center,  Washington, D.C.

February – June  2002

Research about trafficking within the context of the global movement of capital, labor and migration from the standpoint of the feminization of migration;  to clarify the link between the root causes of trafficking and the “normal” economic situation; to study the existing connection among human trafficking, organized crime and corruption; and to study the US experience in prosecuting human trafficking crimes and its trafficking prevention policy.

 October – November 2001

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) – International academic cooperation – 2001 Gumbold University, Berlin

• The research on gender issue.
• Prepare the Dictionary “Feminlogy”

 August 2001

Summer Course Human Rights– School of Human Rights Research Faculty of Low, Utrecht University.  Janskerkhof 3, 3512 BK Utrecht The Netherland

CEU – Summer University. “Human Rights and Forced Displacement People: An Interdisciplinary Approach”

  CONTRACTS
(January – March 2002)

Consultant of Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, American University, Washington, D.C.

“Alumni Hopes Educational Campaign Will Decrease Human Trafficking in Ukraine”  - ECA Alumni Small Grants Program administrated by IREX.

The project is  prepared by US, Ukrainian, and Georgian scholars for studying most vulnerable and challenging problems of Ukraine and Georgia - Corruption in high educational systems of these Republics and long term impact on its ability to train and educate a new generation of specialists to help develop these societies.

• The research dwelled on the following topics: main categories of labor migrants and their reasons for it; main obstacles shuttle traders face, specifics of labor migration in Ukraine; effects of current policies on labor migration and private entrepreneurship; recommendations for amendments to existing policies aimed to improve position of those involved in shuttle trade.

• Research on human trafficking crimes and write a report  on the topic of “Female Labor Migration from Ukraine: Reasons and Motives” Work over on charter of the book “Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives” Chapter 5: Olga Pyshchulina “The Determinants and Character of Prostitution and Human Trafficking in Ukraine”

International research “Strengthening Citizen Participation in the Privatization Process. Empowering Women”. With participation Russia, Poland, Bulgaria and International Institute “Women, Low and Development International”. With support USAID.

• Defining the state of social consciousness  and the attitude to prostitution of the representatives of all the social, professional groups and age ones;
• Finding out the Ukrainian people’s attitude to the legalization of prostitution;
• Finding and the typological group of women who are prostitutes and to study their characteristics;

The sociological research “Prevention Trafficking and Prostitution in the Ukraine” (with International Organization for Migration). (The results of the research was published, Geneva, 1998)

• The first All-Ukrainian Study on Gender Discrimination in Ukraine During the Privatization Process and its impact of the status of women in Labor Market  (1999)

• Gender Difference of Political Orientations of the Population of the Eastern Ukraine (pilot surveys conducted in 1996 and 1997)

 John Smith Fellowship Programme – UK, (Department for International Development, British Council, John Smith Memorial Trust). 

April – May 2000

Observer on the local election campaign in Birmingham under grant a Westminster Foundation for Democracy

•  46th Annual ISA Convention “Dynamics of World Politics: Capacity, Preferences and Leadership”, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 1-5, 2005

• “Face – to Face” Biannual European Anthropological Association Conference, September, 2004, Vienna,   Austria
• UE/IOM STOP European Conference on Combating Trafficking in Human Being - European – a Global Challenge for 21st Century. Under the High Patronage of H.R.M. the King of the Belgians, September 2002, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
• Preparatory Committee II for World Summit for Sustainable Development, New York, April 2002

  Public work

Coordinate the association activity;

• Works with the regional government authorities as a consultant in the civil society development;
• Elaborating of proposals for changes of the Ukrainian legislation concerning gender issues, equal opportunities of women and men in all areas of the public life.

• Feminology – Dictionary 2001,  Kharkov

• Women Political Representation  - 2002 Kharkov

• Women in the Labour Market – 1999 Kharkov

• Human Trafficking in Ukraine and Perspective of its prevention – http://www.belgium.iom.int/SPOPConference/Confdocs/Contributions

• Perspective of Civil Society development in Ukraine – American University, Washington, DC, 2002

• Human Trafficking in Ukraine- Radio Liberty, Washington, DC  20 June, 2002

 MAIN ARTICLES

• Women in Ukrainian Political Life – Strategichna Panorama, Kiev, Ukraine 2003

• Corruption in Higher Education System in Ukraine - Partnership for Transparent society, Kiev. 2003, p. 154 – 172

• Shuttle Trade from Ukraine - Kharkov Sociological Reading –Kharkov, 2002, p.202 - 214 

• A New gender paradigm –Kharkov, Academy of Legal Studies, 1999, p. 89 - 99 

• Women’s labor migration from Ukraine. -  Kharkov Sociological Reading – 1998, Kharkov, 1998, p.232-238 

• To new paradigm of social change: theoretical train. Kharkov sociological reading, Kharkov 1997, p. 34-42

• Transformation of cultural and exchange a social stereotype in the modern society. – Kharkov sociological reading – 1995, Kharkov, 1995 p. 14-16  

• Changing the behavioral orientation of personality in conditions of cultural transformation - Kharkov, Materials of the report at International Conference "Social  protection of youth”, 1993, p. 115-117 

• The problem of consolidation of Ukrainian society in the context of value changes -  Kharkov, “Osnova” 1993 p.54-62 

• Civil Society in Ukraine and Governance in Transitional Period. At Analytical Assessments: Ukrainian Strategic Perspectives. - National institute for Strategic Studies, 2004

• An Avaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking. At Human Trafficking and Transnational Crime edited by Sally Stoecker and Louise Shelley, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Inc, 2004

• Mapping of civil society organizations in Ukraine and Relationship between civil society and forms of governance - At Analytical Assessments: Ukrainian Strategic Perspectives. - National institute for Strategic Studies, 2003

• Dictionary “Feminology”//  editor Olga Pyshchulina, Kharkov, 365 p. 2002 

• Information campaign against trafficking in women from Ukraine. – IOM International Organization for Migration,  Research report,  July 1998, 35 p.