On 27 March 2025, it’s time for this year’s Kastelholm Talks. And as of today, registration is open! You can register for the whole event or can choose to participate in parts of it. First, there will be a talk at 14.15 at Kastelholm Castle, where the castle panel will
Hello! My name is Melvin Leopold Sjöberg, I’m 15 years old and I’m spending my second internship-week at Ålands fredsinstitut (Åland Island Peace Institute), week 10 year 2025. I’m a student at Kyrkby Högstadieskola. I’m really interested in history and civics, and that’s why I chose this place for my
It is with great pleasure that we now present this year’s castle panel during the Kastelholm Talks 2025: Minna Kukkonen-Karlander, Anders Lidén and Annika Söder. Minna Kukkonen-Karlander is Senior Manager at Crisis Management Initiative’s (CMI) Asia Programme since August 2021, focusing on North East and South East Asia. Prior to
This week we welcome our newly hired coordinator to the Peace Institute! Martha will work as a coordinator focusing on internal organization but also on project development and seminars. She has previously worked at Emmaus Åland, which, like the Peace Institute, has its roots in the Åland Peace Association. She
Hi! My name is Josefina Berndtsson and I am the Ålands Peace Institute’s Kastelholm intern during spring 2025. I am currently studying information technology at Åland university of applied sciences and wish with this internship to get a better insight into the work that the Peace Institute does, as well
At the end of 2024, the Peace Institute’s e-journal JASS published a new issue, containing a research note and an article. In the research note ‘Understanding Self-Government: Varieties of Territorial Autonomy’ by Prof. Shane Barter from Soka University of America, Barter contributes to conceptual development and shows different applications by
We are happy to announce that Martha Hannus will start working as a coordinator at the Peace Institute on 1 February 2025. She will work mainly with our internal organisation but also with projects and other parts of our outreach activities, so you will see her around! Martha combines both
The public debate on Åland’s demilitarisation continues, with a changed security situation and increased focus on security issues and defence. The Ålandic exemption from military service and questions of Ålandic preparedness and resilience are also discussed in the media, and sometimes it is difficult to know how we who live
A warm welcome to Christmas mulled wine on Wednesday, December 4 at 13-15. We hold an open house at Hamngatan 5 and offer mulled wine and sell our books.
Last week, our Director Susann Simolin attended the European Peace Research Association (EUPRA) conference in Pisa, Italy, with the overarching theme of peace in theory and practice in troubled times. She participated in a panel on the challenges of peace research together with representatives from peace research institutes across Europe,
