Tetiana Kyselova is an Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Department of International Relations) and an Associate Researcher at swisspeace/University of Basel as well as the Institute for Conflict Management at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She was a recipient of the Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship, the Ukrainian Research in Switzerland Fellowship, the Borders in Motion Fellowship and others. She has been a visiting teaching and research fellow at Uppsala, Giessen, Torino Universities, the Queen Mary University of London and the University of Basel.
Dr. Kyselova was certified as a mediator by Search for Common Ground and as a business mediator by the IHK Academy for Munich and Upper Bavaria. She has been working with civil society and the professional community of mediators in Ukraine since the 1990s, advising them on strategies of peacebuilding, professional-regulation, training and methodologies of mediation and dialogue. She has co-authored a Ukrainian law on mediation and served as an advisor to Ukraine’s Ministry of Reintegration of Temporality Occupied Territories and various international organizations.
Her research interests include conflict resolution and transformation, peacebuilding, mediation, negotiation and dialogue.
Selected Publications
Kyselova, T. and Potomkina, Y. (2025) ‘How Not to End the War in Ukraine: Past Failures Make Clear That an Imposed Peace Won’t Last’, Foreign Affairs, 1 March.
Kyselova, T. and Landau, D. (2025) ‘Rethinking Peace and Victory in Light of Russian Aggression in Ukraine: Introduction to the Special Issue’, International Negotiations, 30(1), pp. 1–11.
Kyselova, T. and Landau, D. (2025) ‘Ukrainian Visions of Peace: (Re-)Shaping Peace Through Victory’, International Negotiations, 30(1), pp. 13–42.
Kyselova, T. (2024) ‘Including Civil Society in Peace Negotiations: The War in the Ukraine Donbas Region (2014–21)’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 18 (August), pp. 1–19.
Kyselova, T. and Axyonova V.(2024) ‘Dialogue for Peace: The Production of Knowledge and Norms between International Practices and Local Ownership in Ukraine’, Peacebuilding, 13 (1), pp. 20-38.
Hirblinger, A. T., Wählisch, M., Keator, K., McNaboe, C., Duursma, A., Karlsrud, J., Sticher, V., Verjee, A., Kyselova, T., Kwaja, C., Perera, S. (2023) ‘Forum: Making Peace with Un-Certainty: Reflections on the Role of Digital Technology in Peace Processes Beyond the Data Hype, International Studies Perspectives’, International Studies Perspectives, 25 (2), pp. 185–225.
Kyselova, T. and Holper, A. (2021) ‘Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding and Dialogues in Ukraine’, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 27(3), pp. 475–485.
Kraus, A. I., Frazer, O., Kirchhoff, L., Kyselova, T., Mason, S. J. A., Palmiano Federer, J. (2019) ‘Dilemmas and Trade-Offs in Peacemaking: A Framework for Navigating Difficult Decisions’, Politics and Governance, 7 (4), pp. 331-342.
Kyselova, T. and Kraus, A. (2018) ‘Doing Action Research on Dialogues in Ukraine’, Zeitschrift für Beratungs- und Managementwissenschaften, 4, pp. 64-71.
Kyselova, T. (2017) ‘Mediation in Ukraine: Challenges of Peace and War’, pp. 107-145.
Kyselova, T. (2017) ‘Professional Peacemakers in Ukraine: Mediators and Facilitators Before and After 2014’, Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, 3, pp. 117-136.
