Resilience to Information Disorders: Policy Solutions, Media Strategies, Social Practices

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel explores diverse strategies for countering information disorders, focusing on policy solutions, media strategies, and societal resilience. It brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on how states, civil society, and media actors navigate disinformation challenges in wartime and beyond.
Khystyna Holynska presents Narrative Red Teaming, a proactive framework integrating counter-disinformation strategies with structured team testing to identify and counter malign narratives. Dmytro Iarovyi examines social practices of resilience in Lithuania and Ukraine, analyzing how institutional, media, and cognitive strategies sustain democratic resilience in hybrid threat environments. Viktoriia Savchuk Kennet explores the digital multimedia as resistance, demonstrating how platforms like United24 and Ukraïner combat Russian disinformation through digital storytelling and real-time reporting. Hanna Starkova investigates media consumption and war, assessing how European youth engage with news on Russia’s war and how their perceptions shape future resilience to information disorders.
By combining policy, grassroots initiatives, digital media strategies, and audience behavior analysis, the authors offer a comprehensive look at countering disinformation. Through case studies and comparative analyses, the panel seeks to contribute to the debates on effective counter-disinformation strategies and the evolving media landscape in times of conflict.

Sub Unit

• International Relations, Security Studies, Foreign Policy

Chair

• Anastasiia Vlasenko, Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine)

Papers

• Narrative Red Teaming: Building Resilience to Malign Narratives - Khrystyna Holynska, RAND Corporation

• Social Practices of Resilience to Information Disorders: Lithuania and Ukraine - Dmytro Iarovyi, Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) / Vytautas Magnus U (Lithuania)

• Media as Resistance: Digital Multimedia in Wartime Ukraine - Viktoriia Savchuk Kennet, U of Maryland, College Park

• Media Consumption and War: How European Young Adults Perceive News on Russia’s War in Ukraine - Hanna Starkova, Kharkiv National U of Economics (Ukraine)

Discussant

• Jaclyn A. Kerr, National Defense U / Brookings Institution / Georgetown U