New publication about the Åland Example
The Åland Islands Peace Institute’s latest publication, an edited volume entitled “The Åland Example and Its Components – Relevance for International Conflict Resolution”, was launched on 1 November 2011 in the framework of an international conference that attracted more than 100 participants, among them prominent diplomats, politicians and scholars. (Read more about the conference here.) The publication presents the conclusions from a research project that has ben conducted during 2010 and 2011. The original research project followed two strands; continuity and change as characteristics of the Åland Regime on the one hand, and the Åland Example as a tool in international conflict resolution on the other. Sia Spilopoulou Åkermark, Sarah Stephan and Heidi Öst have outlined features of both continuity and change in what can be classified as the three components of the Åland Example: the autonomy regime and its institutional design, the demilitarisation and neutralization, and the cultural and linguistic safeguards of the minority protection regime. While conflict resolution literature covers a wide area of subjects, there has been limited attention paid to the role of territorial autonomy as a possible conflict resolution tool. Moving beyond the formal aspects of the division of competences between center and periphery, the […]
International Conference on the Åland Example
On Tuesday 1 November 2011 over a hundred participants from different parts of the world gathered in Mariehamn Åland for the international conference with the title “The Åland Example and its components – Relevance for International Conflict Resolution”. The conference was organised by the Åland Islands Peace Institute, as a closing conference of the research project ”The Åland Example: Still of Global Interest and Relevance?” Simoultaneously a publication including the results of the research was launched.
Pictures taken at the conference by photographer Lukrecija Bielskyte
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