Demilitarisation researchers met in Mariehamn
Från vänster: Saila Heinikoski, Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen and Filip Holiencin The researchers of the project ”Demilitarisation in an increasingly militarized world” met in Mariehamn on 26-27 January 2016 to discuss work in progress. Jur. dr. Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen is currently examining the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in the light of the law of the sea and demilitarisation and neutralisation of the Åland Islands. PhD-student Saila Heinikoski has recently embarked upon her research on the position of the demilitarisation within the foreign and security policy of Finland and of the EU. Filip Holiencin is working together with professor Timo Koivurova on the regime of demilitarisation on Svalbard. The project leader, associate professor Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, examines new forms of civil-military cooperation in the Baltic Sea, in particular with regard to airspace. Former project research Yannick Poullie completed his work on the discussions regarding the demilitarisation of Åland at the end of the Cold war. Poullie’s scientific article is forthcoming. A blog piece summarizing some of his results can be found here. More information on the project an be downloaded in pdf, here.
Saila Heinikoski new researcher at the ÅIPI
Saila Heinikoski is a researcher in the research project “Demilitarisation in an increasingly militarized world. International perspectives in a multilevel framework – the case of the Åland Islands”, funded by the KONE foundation. In the project, she focuses on the position of Åland demilitarisation in the foreign and security policy of Finland and the European Union. In 2016, she will defend her doctoral thesis in International Relations at the University of Turku, Finland. Her thesis focuses on the right to free movement in the European Union and she has published several articles on European Union issues as well as co-edited a volume on the European Union security and defence policy. She holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Turku: one in International Relations and the other in Translation Studies. Before her research career, she has worked, inter alia, as an intern at the Representation of the European Commission in Finland and at the Department of Strategic and Defence Studies of the Finnish Defence University.