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“Open Doors” – a popular meeting place for girls in Azerbaijan

Impressions from the fourth project visit to Azerbaijan withi the project Open Doors, May 2013

In the neighborhood of Ahmedli, a few blocks away from the last metro stop, far off the glittering lights of Baku’s city center, the women’s organization Yuva runs “Open Doors”, a youth center for teenage girls. The center is supported financially and conceptually by the Åland Islands Peace Institute and opened its doors for girls living in the adjacent apartment buildings almost exactly one year ago, in May 2012, and is today a popular meeting place for girls and young women.

Call: Workshop on Democracy in September 2013

We are hereby inviting papers for the workshop ”Ideas and Realities of Democracy”, the third international workshop of The Civic Constellation Project to be held in Mariehamn on Åland 26-27 September 2013. This is a cooperation between scientists from across the social sciences. We invite proposals dealing with the workshop

ELDIA – research project on minority languages

Norden and Peace

How can the Nordic countries bring about a shift from a military to a civilian perspective and a greater emphasis on peace issues? This question is particularly relevant in a time of increased Nordic cooperation in defense and security policy. The traditional peace profile The fact that the Nordic countries

Fair Sex project

“Fair Sex” is a project run by the Åland Island Peace Institute, which aims at the prevention of sexual violence and the promotion of gender equality among youth on the Åland Islands. The project includes interactive workshops for students at secondary schools as well as training and consulting activities for

International journal special issue edited by ÅIPI focuses on territorial autonomies

The International Journal for Minority and Group Rights has published a special issue on territorial arrangements in conflict resolution. A number of researchers associated with the Åland Islands Peace Institute have contributed to the special edition, which has been initiated and edited by the Peace Institute’s director Sia Spiliopoulou

Summary of project challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking

The project Challenging Gender roles for Prevention of Trafficking – a joint Åland-Latvian project aiming at combating stereotypical gender perceptions at a grass-root level in order to undermine conditions for development of gender related violence, human trafficking and sexual slavery – was formally closed in the end of February. Today,

Extended deadline for papers to language conference

An open conference named “Changing linguistic landscapes” will be organized on Thursday 27th of September in Mariehamn, Åland. The open conference is aimed at researchers and others interested in languages, language policies, language regulations, language education and the changing roles and functions of languages within and between states and ethnic

Conference on language policies – call for papers

On 26th – 28th of September 2012, in Mariehamn, Finland, the Åland Islands Peace Institute will arrange a conference within the project European Language Diversity for All (ELDIA), an interdisciplinary research project for reconceptualizing, promoting and re-evaluating individual and societal multilingualism. The ELDIA-project is funded by the 7th Framework Programme

First research results published within the ELDIA project

The research project ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All) studies and compares 14 different language groups in eight European countries. The goal of the project is to collect knowledge about how to strengthen minority languages in Europe and globally. The project runs during the period March 2010 – June 2013 and the role of the Åland Islands Peace Institute is to develop the legal and institutional analyses. The project is funded by the 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Union.

The first preliminary results of the project have now been published within the report series Working Papers in European Language Diversity which is available at the project website: http://www.eldia-project.org/. Among the first working papers can be mentioned studies on Karelian in Finland and the languages Voru and Seto in Estonia. Through a study of the position of the Estonian language in Germany, Sarah Stephan, LL.M., researcher at the Åland Islands Peace Institute is able to trace current developments concerning the position of languages and of multilingualism in German political and legal debates. The report can be found here.

Category: News

“Open Doors” – a popular meeting place for girls in Azerbaijan

Call: Workshop on Democracy in September 2013

ELDIA – research project on minority languages

Norden and Peace

Fair Sex project

International journal special issue edited by ÅIPI focuses on territorial autonomies

Summary of project challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking

Extended deadline for papers to language conference

Conference on language policies – call for papers

First research results published within the ELDIA project

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