The Åland Islands Peace Institute offers an opportunity to experience a dynamic and flexible internship during the fall semester of 2018.

We are looking for a person who is interested in or curious about issues concerning peace, security, minorities and autonomy. The work assignment include arrangements for seminars, spreading of information, social media and the development of our website. For the recruitment of this year we will take into consideration special skills in, among other things, editing of texts, e-publications, work with websites and e-courses.

This year's Kastelholm talks were held on Thursday, 22.3.2018, with the topic "Media, power and courage – on credibility and trust in the public discourse". The Kastelholm talks began with a panel discussion in Kastelholm Castle, where the patron of the talks President Tarja Halonen discussed with a panel consisting of Merete Mazzarella, writer, essayist, journalist and professor of literary studies; Olof Ehrenkrona, Ambassador and Consul General of Sweden in the Åland Islands; Anders Mellbourn, Political Scientist, Journalist, former Editor-in-Chief of newspaper Dagens Nyheter, previous Director of The Swedish Institute of International Affairs and University Professor, and Britt Lundberg, Ålandic politician, President of the Nordic Council in 2017, former Speaker of the Åland Parliament, former minister and Deputy Head of the Åland government. The conversation was moderated by Professor Kjell-Åke Nordquist.

The Kastelholms talks were filmed: The conversation was livestreamed in collaboration with Nipå and can be watched (in Swedish) here.

After a coffee break, the discussion continued with a round-table discussion at the nearby restaurant Smakbyn. The discussion was launched by three new speakers, Martha Hannus, Chairperson of Association Regnbågsfyren and Sustainability Officer at Emmaus Åland; Barbro Sundback, former Speaker of the Parliament of Åland and former Chairperson of the Board of the Peace Institute, now Honorary Chairperson, and Janne Wass, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Ny Tid. The Director of the Peace Institute, Associate Professor Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark moderated the discussion. The audience also participated, and the theme was therefore illuminated from many different perspectives.

On the Swedish version ot the web page, texts in Swedish, documenting the talks, as well as links to media coverage from the talks, can be found clicking here. 

The Kastelholm talks 2018 are carried out with support from: the Government of Åland, the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Fundation, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, the Parliament of Åland, the Nordic Institutet in Åland as well as Åland Convention Bureau.

Regina Österlund is an intern at the Åland Islands Peace Institute during April 2018.
The internship is carried out in agreement with AMS (Åland labor and student service agency). Regina is a nurse and healthcare professional with many years of work experience in social care and health care institutions as well as in a patient-interest association. She has broad knowledge acquired as a healthcare practitioner, human resource and project manager, dementia advisor, secretary and treasurer of the Dementia Association.
Regina describes herself as a curious, problem-solving, result-oriented person who appreciates studies and knowledge and has a genuine interest in other people and their well-being.
At the Peace Institute, she will work with an inventory of the Institute's library, archiving of various materials and dissemination of the Institute's own publications.

Link to / Länk till Nyhetsbrev / Newsletter 2/2018

Download / Ladda ner Nyhetsbrev / Newsletter as / som pdf

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Lunchseminarium med Janne Holmén – Öar, identiteter och mentala kartor

Ålands fredsinstitut söker en organisationssekreterare

Praktik vid Ålands fredsinstitut hösten 2018

Dokumentation, video och foton från Kastelholmssamtalen 2018

Första tillitsstudie på Åland
Med mera ...

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Lunch seminar with Janne Holmén – Islands, Identity and Mental Maps

The Peace Institute is looking for an organization secretary

Internship opportunities at the Åland Islands Peace Institute in the autumn of 2018

See videos, photos and text from the Kastelholm Talks 2018

The first study on trust in the Åland Islands

And more…

Date: 10.4.2018
Time: 11:30 am – 12.30 pm
Place: the restaurant at Hotell Arkipelag

How does islanders perceive their identity and their history in relation to the national state and to the surrounding world? Historian Janne Holmén has researched on the one hand on islands, identity and historical writing, and on the other hand, on historical consciousness and mental maps. At the seminar Holmén will discuss how regional history-writing has contributed to the formation of regional identities on the islands of Åland, Gotland, Dagö, Ösel and Bornholm. While regional history writing, in most cases, aims to integrate the island into the national state, it has been used in Åland during the second half of the 20th century to depict its inhabitants as a separate nation.

Aune Sanz is doing and internship at the Åland Islands Peace Institute from mid-March until mid-June 2018. At the moment Aune studies a masters in Statistics at the University of Helsinki and is interested in survey methodology and visualization of data. During her semester abroad at the University of Otago, New Zealand, Aune studied a minor in Criminology and became fascinated by intersectionality, feminist criminology and transformative justice a community-based strategy for responding to crimes concerned with the root causes of conflicts. She did her Bachelor’s thesis on the correlation between children’s experiences of physical punishment and other forms of violence at home.

Aune has previously worked as a Research Intern at Demos Helsinki and a Research Assistant in the Finnish Youth Research Society’s project ”You Can Never Go Home Again: young adults in transforming labour market”. Eager to improve her Swedish skills during her stay in Mariehamn, Aune is fluent in Finnish, Spanish and English.

Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, who has been on leave from her position as Director to work with research activities, returns to her position as Director as of 1 March. 
– It's great to come back to my regular duties. It has been very enriching and important both to me and to the Peace Institute, that I have been able to engage in research on demilitarisation for some time. Meanwhile, my colleagues and the board have developed the activities of the Institute in interesting and successful ways. Now I come back to both old and new. It will be kind of a new start for me, says Spiliopoulou Åkermark.
Kjell-Åke Nordquist, who has been the Acting Director of the Institute for almost three years, will keep contact with the Institute in various ways also in the future, especially regarding some of the research activities that have been initiated during his time as Director. 

Link to / Länk till Nyhetsbrev / Newsletter 1/2018

Download/Ladda ner Nyhetsbrev / Newsletter 1/2018 as / som pdf

INNEHÅLL

Kastelholmssamtalen 2018: Media, makt och mod - om trovärdighet och tillit i det offentliga samtalet
Kommande lunchseminarium - Janne Holmén om öar och identitet
Roger Jansson utsedd till seniorrådgivare för fredsinstitutet
Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark tillbaka på direktörsposten
Med mera ...

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The Kastelholm Talks 2018: Media, Power and Courage - on Credibility and Trust in the Public Discourse
Upcoming lunch seminar - Janne Holmén on islands and identity
Roger Jansson appointed Senior Adviser of the ÅIPI
Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark returns as Director
And more ...

The Kastelholm talks of 2018 will discuss the topic "Media, power and courage – on credibility and trust in the public discourse". The Kastelholm talks are talks on peace issues, yearly held on the Åland Islands under the patronage of former President of Finland, Tarja Halonen. The talks are this year held on 22 March.

The Kastelholm talks are held in Swedish and consist of two parts. First there is a panel discussion in the castle of Kastelholm with Kjell-Åke Nordquist as moderator. Secondly, a roundtable discussion is held in nearby restaurant Smakbyn with moderator Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark.

The panel in the first discussion consists of Merete Mazzarella, writer, essayist, journalist and professor of literary studies; Olof Ehrenkrona, Ambassador and Consul General of Sweden in the Åland Islands, Anders Mellbourn, Political Scientist, Journalist, former Editor-in-Chief of newspaper Dagens Nyheter, previous Director of The Swedish Institute of International Affairs and University Professor as well as Britt Lundberg, politician from Åland who was the President of the Nordic Council in 2017, former Speaker of the Åland Parliament, former minister and Deputy Head of the Åland government.

At the roundtable discussion, three commentators contribute with further insights based on their reflections and impressions from the first panel discussion. Martha Hannus is chairperson of Association Regnbågsfyren and Sustainability Officer at Emmaus Åland. She has previously worked on issues of extremism and racism. Janne Wass is Editor-in-Chief of magazine Ny Tid in Helsinki. He has previously worked as foreign reporter at newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet and as reporter at Public television Service, Yle. Barbro Sundback, is a politician and former Speaker of the Parliament of Åland. She was former Chairperson of the Board of the Peace Institute, and holds the position of its Honorary Chairperson.

Invitations have been sent out to guests. There are a few open seats.

At its Board meeting on 23th January, the Åland Islands Peace Institute's Board of Directors appointed Roger Jansson as the Institute's third senior adviser.

The ÅIPI appoints individuals in its network as senior advisers based on their knowledge, experience and capacity to assist the Peace Institute's employees, research council and Board with advice. The senior advisers can participate in the Institute's international work on peace and conflict issues, in particular to disseminate knowledge about the Åland example, as well as to represent the Peace Institute in different contexts. 

Roger Jansson, who during his political career has been Member of the Parliament of Finland, Speaker of the Parliament of Åland and Head of the Åland Government, has been a member of the ÅIPI's Board of Directors for 10 years, leaving the Board in 2017. As a member of the board of directors he has generously contributed with his knowledge of Åland's special international status, especially in the field of demilitarization. He has also been providing important assistance in financial and property matters. 

The Peace Institute has since before two senior advisors, Mr. Gunnar Jansson, former Member of the Parliament of Finland and Mr. Pertti Joenniemi, Peace Researcher. The ÅIPI also has an honorary chairman, Ms. Barbro Sundback, former Chairperson of the Board.