Ukraine at War: How to mobilize the people for war?

Name: Ukraine at War: How to mobilize the people for war?
Start: 2025-10-28T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-28T10:30:00+01:00
Location: Litteraturhuset

Schedule

Tue Oct 28 2025 at 08:30 am to 10:30 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Litteraturhuset | Oslo, OS

In the fourth year of fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion, questions of mobilisation and public resilience are more urgent than ever.
As Ukraine has entered its fourth year of full-scale war, one particularly pressing theme is mobilisation policy and the growing risk of war-weariness among Ukrainians.
Ukraine’s biggest strength has rested on the resilience and motivation of its population, despite being outnumbered by its adversary. Russia, with over 100 million more inhabitants, can draw on a far larger recruitment base, even if its soldiers’ training and morale remain low.
What are Ukraine’s and Russia’s strategies for mobilizing conscripts and recruiting volunteers to their armed forces? How have these strategies changed as the war has progressed?
For Ukraine – how may the country manage to keep the fight going in view of the massive demographic imbalance in Russia’ favour?
This IFS seminar offers expert insights into how mobilisation policies in both countries have developed and what they mean for the course of the conflict.
To read the seminar programme and sign up 👉https://www.forsvaret.no/forskning/arrangementer/ukraine-at-war-how-to-mobilize-the-people-for-war