This year’s Peace Fellow is Clifford Okwany from Kenya. He is the third Peace Fellow to stay on Åland. Last Sunday he set foot on Ålandic soil for the first time – and now he is installed with us at the Peace Institute. Today the sun shines into the library, which
Did you miss our breakfast seminar last spring on Åland’s demilitarisation – what are myths and what are truths? Now we are running it again but in the evening and with a classical music performance by the Ukrainian pianist Olha Dmytrenko. Welcome to Mariehamn City Library on Thursday 21 September
Ahead of International Democracy Day, the KUT network invites you to a new lunch seminar on 14 September! This time the theme is “Facts for good decisions – where the environment and economy meet” and the panel consists of Siv Sandberg, university teacher and researcher in public administration at Åbo
Do not miss the new issue of Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies! The special issue collects the proceedings of a joint webinar hosted by Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and the Åland Islands Peace Institute in January this year: Regional Security in the North, Nuclear Risks and
Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Director of the Peace Institute, is appointed Professor of Law at Åbo Akademi University, specialising in self-government and autonomy. She starts her new position initially on a part-time basis from November 2023. – It is a great honor to once again work at Åbo Akademi University and
A legal study on Åland’s demilitarization will be completed in August and is something that the Åland Islands Peace Institute asked for already last spring in connection with the discussion of a NATO membership. “A good and updated legal investigation on Åland’s position can be useful today, as we see
Do you want to learn more about territorial autonomy and The Åland Example? Then you should register for thisautumn’s digital e-course “Territorial Autonomy as a Resource for Diversity & Conflict Resolution – Lessons with the Åland Example as one point of departure”. The course is offered in collaboration with the
The framework and decisions in the League of Nations on 24 June 1921 on territorial autonomy, linguistic guarantees, demilitarisation and neutralisation were incorporated among others into an agreement between Finland and Sweden. The Council unanimously approved the terms of the agreement and annexed it to its decision on June 27th
An important meeting of the Council of the League of Nations took place on 24 June 1921. The Åland question had been discussed several times before, but today, 102 years ago, the Council decided that Åland would belong to Finland with special guarantees of autonomy, language, land ownership, voting rights
Fruitful research discussions on territorial autonomy were held last week in Berlin (14-15 June). In a cooperation between the Åland Islands Peace Institute and the Finnland Institut in Berlin, Germany, the workshop was organised under the title “The many faces of territorial autonomy”. Researchers discussed issues of definitions, of research
