The University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) has released Ukrainian translations of its free teaching resources examining the war and broader issues of war crimes, human rights, and international justice.

The high school and college-level materials were translated by a dedicated team at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU)—Ukraine’s largest state university—through WCEE’s coordination with Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science. This collaboration marks a novel American-Ukrainian academic partnership and paves the way for broad dissemination of the Ukrainian-language materials across Ukraine and the Ukrainian-speaking diaspora. The University of Michigan and KNU have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for ongoing and future academic and scientific cooperation. 

“It is an honor to partner with a leading Ukrainian academic institution and the Ministry of Education and Science on this key initiative,” commented Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director, Weiser Family Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at U-M, and the project’s Principal Investigator. “Our partners at KNU will also translate the resources into Russian and Belorussian, as it is critical to reach those audiences in this age of widespread disinformation.”

Support for the translations comes from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman’s Grant awarded to WCEE in November 2025. WCEE plans to further translate the teaching resources into several other critical languages, including Polish and French. 

All curricular materials are used in conjunction with WCEE’s interactive maps and archive of witness testimonies of war crimes collected by The Reckoning Project, an international NGO working closely with Ukraine’s General Prosecutor and international legal bodies to seek justice for victims. After partnering with the The Reckoning Project in 2022, WCEE’s team of student research assistants, translators, and editors analyzed testimonies from more than 300 incidents and prepared them for legal, archival, commemorative, and educational purposes.

For more information, contact WCEE Special Projects Manager Derek Groom at djgroom@umich.edu.