The Ukraine Recovery Conference is an annual intergovernmental conference of major international institutions, governments, business and civil society to mobilise investments and support for Ukraine’s economic and early reconstruction through the course of the war. This year the conference will take place in Rome on the 10th and 11th July.
To prepare the discussion and policy frameworks that will be discussed at the conference Conflict and Civicness Research Group hosted an expert roundtable at the London School of Economics on the 22nd May 2025, The Road to Rome: Resilience and Recovery in Uncertain Times. The event was organised as part of the LSE CCRG’s Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) and in partnership and close collaboration with the Kyiv School of Economics, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung – Kyiv Office and Clingendael Institute.
Luke Cooper, the Director of PeaceRep’s Ukraine programme and Associate Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations at the LSE said:
'This year’s Ukraine Recovery Conference will meet at a time of great geopolitical uncertainty with considerable strategic risks for Ukraine. These pose huge challenges for Ukraine and its people. But with the right policies frameworks and on-going injections of financial assistance, Ukraine is proving to be resilient and can meet these critical challenges head on, supporting the stable economy vital to a future post-conflict transition.'
The conference brought together a group of 35 academics, experts, civil servants and civil society stakeholders including colleagues from the governments of Ukraine, Italy and the United Kingdom, the World Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The discussions took place under the Chatham House rule.
The readout from the conference can be read here.
The following background policy papers were discussed at the conference:
- Cooper, L. 2025. Russo-Ukrainian War: the political economy of the present balance of forces (PeaceRep: Edinburgh).
- Krukovets, D. et al. 2025. UKRAINE MACROECONOMIC HANDBOOK January 2025(KSE Institute: Kyiv).
- Oxford Human Rights Lab, 2024. Re : Building Ukraine For All : Recommendations for the 2025 Ukraine Recovery Conference(Oxford Human Rights Lab: Oxford).
- Vlasiuk, V. Milakovsky, B. and Cooper, L. Critical raw materials and Ukraine (FES Ukraine office: Kyiv).
- Bojicic-Dzelilovic, V. and Causevic, F. forthcoming. Lessons of Bosnia reconstruction for Ukraine (FES Ukraine office: Kyiv).
- Lomonosova, N. 2025. In search of the progressive paths to rebuild Ukraine, (FEPS: Brussels) Tkalich, O. Dutchak,O., Lomonosova, N. 2025. One for Three: How Ukrainian Nurses Work, 2025 (RLS: Brussels).
- Cretti, G., Soldatiuk-Westerveld, J., van Schaik, L., 2024.Integrating Ukraine’s energy sector into the EU(Clingendael Institute: The Hague)
- Van Hees, C., Hollander, S., Neumann, R., 2025. Gradual integration of candidate countries into the European Union: Pushing the impossible, delaying the inevitable? (Clingendael Institute: The Hague)