ABSTRACT
This conclusion synthesises the book’s central claim that Russia’s war against Ukraine constitutes an axiological event in which the moral foundations of political community, collective resilience, and the European normative order are exposed and reconfigured. Integrating analyses across state structures, social practices, and transnational dynamics, the chapter shows how values become operative forces: embodied in leadership anchored in meaning, enacted in communal rituals that transform suffering into solidarity, and sustained through practices of memory that guard moral cohesion. The war reveals the axiological nature of European security, demonstrating that truth, dignity, and responsibility now function as principles of co-ordination and legitimacy rather than abstract declarations. It conceptualises axiological security and moral resilience as analytical categories capturing how societies preserve coherence amidst disinformation, symbolic violence, and crisis. The chapter outlines future research directions involving the study of value transformation under extreme conditions, the epistemic ethics of communication, the role of women and religious actors in sustaining moral agency, and the formation of shared transnational memory. Ultimately, it argues that values form the inner architecture of political order and that only through their preservation, reinterpretation, and renewal can a durable moral horizon – and thus a just peace – emerge from the experience of war.
