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
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,
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
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
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.
As a result of a co-operation between researchers on Åland and in Latvia within the project Challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking, the ÅIPI can present the report Effects of the girl and boy group method – A gender and social psychology perspective on gender equality youth work on Åland and in Latvia.
It is an effort to initiate scientific knowledge and interest on the girl and boy group method that has been used in the Nordic countries and elsewhere for some time and where Åland has been an eager actor. However, not much structured and comparative documentation and evaluation has taken place. In the report the effects of praticipation in girl or boy groups in relation to gender norms, gender equality, social attitudes and empowerment.
As a result of a co-operation between researchers on Åland and in Latvia within the project Challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking, the ÅIPI can present the report Effects of the girl and boy group method – A gender and social psychology perspective on gender equality youth work on Åland and in Latvia.
It is an effort to initiate scientific knowledge and interest on the girl and boy group method that has been used in the Nordic countries and elsewhere for some time and where Åland has been an eager actor. However, not much structured and comparative documentation and evaluation has taken place. In the report the effects of praticipation in girl or boy groups in relation to gender norms, gender equality, social attitudes and empowerment.
Manual on the girl and boy group method in Swedish and Latvian, 2011 Within the project Challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking consultant Mia Hanström wrote a method book for girl and boy groups. The manual vas edited by Jenny jonstoij and Ulrika Navier and published in Swedish and
Within the project Challenging Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking consultant Mia Hanström wrote a method book for girl and boy groups. The manual vas edited by Jenny jonstoij and Ulrika Navier and published in Swedish and Latvian in 2011 by the Ålands Island Peace Institute and Resource Center for
On the 15th of December a closing conference of the project Challengng Gender Roles for Prevention of Trafficking was held in Swedish on Åland. At this conference the project results were presented. Summary of project results: – 29 girl and boy groups have been run within the project and all
