On October 31 - November 1, the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation will hold the 10th Kyiv Security Forum for Youth in Ukraine’s capital.

The topic of the first Youth KSF since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion is "Gen W. Ukraine’s War Generation".

The Forum will be attended by over 100 young leaders from all over the country.

It is aimed to become a platform for discussing the challenges Ukrainian youth are facing during the war, the crucial mission that young people have undertaken in bringing victory closer and that awaits them after the war is over.

Prominent Ukraine’s and international public figures, representatives of the military, prominent volunteers and civil society activists, experts on security and international relations will become speakers of the Youth KSF. Among the speakers of the Forum:  Marie-Doha BESANCENOT, Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO; David PETRAEUS, Commander of the U.S Central Command (2008-2010), Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency;  Kurt VOLKER, United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (2017-19); Oleksandra MATVIICHUK, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Head of the Center for Civil Liberties; Natalie JARESKO, Chairperson, The Aspen Institute Kyiv, Ukraine’s Finance Minister (2014-16); Anton DROBOVYCH, Head of the Institute of National Remembrance; Vitaly PORTNIKOV, journalist.

Media accreditation form:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pIiJ5N4LYiIXaA97_mM0ZnY7VH_ky14SQCbcstbl8n8/viewform?ts=655208f3&edit_requested=true (until 18 pm, Tuesday, October 29).

Accreditation confirmation will be sent to an e-mail address you provided during registration. All the details will be provided in the accreditation confirmation letter.

The 10th Kyiv Security Forum for Youth is organized by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation in partnership with the NATO Representation to Ukraine and supported by the National Democratic Institute and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Ukraine. The institutional partner of the Forum is the Atlantic Council.

Media partners: Espreso, Censor.NET, TVA, Gordon, Gazeta.ua, Interfax-Ukraine, Glavkom, Ukraine World, Ukraine Media Center, Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, The Day Newspaper. Telegraf, Defence Express, INDEX.

Kyiv Security Forum for Youth is a leading platform for engaging young leaders in discussing issues of national security and international relations. Since 2012, 9 Kyiv Security Forums for Youth have been held. In September 2021, Kyiv Security Forum launched the initiative of youth meetings "West-East, North-South”.