Meet Anders Lidén – our first guest in the podcast series ‘Towards the Kastelholm Talks 2025’. Anders Lidén is a former Ambassador and Counsellor for Foreign Affairs at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Mr Lidén has been head of Sweden’s UN delegation in New York and ambassador in Helsinki,
The Castle is now full, but you are welcome to watch the Kastelholm Peace Talks online here on the website on 27 March. No pre-registration is required for it. Just visit our website when the broadcast starts at 14.15 EEST. If you are here in Mariehamn, make sure to come
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
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
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
Welcome to Mariehamns stadsbibliotek next Wednesday 2 October at 18. Our evening seminar, which was unfortunately cancelled last time due to illness, will now take place. Come and listen to our expert, Kjell-Åke Nordquist talk about ‘Middle East – Does peace have a chance? ’ The basic conditions for getting
How important is the issue of international guarantees for the Åland solution today? Are there any such guarantees at all? Welcome to our lunch seminar with Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Professor at Åbo Akademi University and former Director of the Åland Islands Peace Institute. The seminar is based on a study
In recent decades we have seen many conflicts in the world where a central feature is that one or more ethnic groups within a state are seeking greater self-determination, in some cases independence. In many such situations, self-government or other forms of power-sharing have been discussed and sometimes introduced as
Photo: Cata Portin, Förlaget M Today, there are less than three weeks left until this year’s Kastelholm Peace Talks and we are pleased to announce that the award-winning author Ulla-Lena Lundberg is one of the participants in the round table discussion at Alandica starting at 5 pm, where she, together
21 March 2024 is the date for this year’s Kastelholm talks. And as of today, registration is open! You can register for the whole event or you can choose to participate in parts of it. First, there will be a talk at 14:15 at Kastelholm Castle, where the castle panel
