{"id":18833,"date":"2015-12-14T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/2015\/12\/nordquist-held-speech-in-turku\/"},"modified":"2015-12-14T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T13:35:38","slug":"nordquist-held-speech-in-turku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/nordquist-held-speech-in-turku\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordquist held speech in Turku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-18831\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Nordquist_Turku_Rotaryspeech.jpg\" alt=\"Nordquist Turku Rotaryspeech\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Nordquist_Turku_Rotaryspeech.jpg 2200w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Nordquist_Turku_Rotaryspeech-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Nordquist_Turku_Rotaryspeech-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Nordquist_Turku_Rotaryspeech-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>On 8 December the director of the \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute, Associate Professor Kjell-\u00c5ke Nordquist held a presentation for the Turku Kupittaan Rotary Club in Turku, Finland. Nordquist gave a talk where he introduced the work of the Institute and then explained how the particular features of \u00c5land&#8217;s\u00a0status &#8211; in international agreements as well as in Finland&#8217;s constitution &#8211; consist of\u00a0parts that interact in a way that promotes peaceful conflict resolution. While this structure helps building stability and\u00a0conditions for\u00a0social\u00a0and economic development in the Baltic Sea region it\u00a0is also from an international point of view a\u00a0very rare, not to say unique, combination of\u00a0instruments for peace and\u00a0respect for minorities. Many international visitors, in particular from countries with internal armed conflicts,\u00a0testify to this. For Rotary, international work, including scholarships and exchange visits, is an important part of its work, and therefore, many reflections on how cooperation and international understanding can be promoted were shared during the discussion, after the talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 December the director of the \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute, Associate Professor Kjell-\u00c5ke Nordquist held a presentation for the Turku Kupittaan Rotary Club in Turku, Finland. Nordquist gave a talk where he introduced the work of the Institute and then explained how the particular features of \u00c5land&#8217;s\u00a0status &#8211; in international agreements as well as in Finland&#8217;s constitution &#8211; consist of\u00a0parts that interact in a way that promotes peaceful conflict resolution. While this structure helps building stability and\u00a0conditions for\u00a0social\u00a0and economic development in the Baltic Sea region it\u00a0is also from an international point of view a\u00a0very rare, not to say unique, combination of\u00a0instruments for peace and\u00a0respect for minorities. Many international visitors, in particular from countries with internal armed conflicts,\u00a0testify to this. For Rotary, international work, including scholarships and exchange visits, is an important part of its work, and therefore, many reflections on how cooperation and international understanding can be promoted were shared during the discussion, after the talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyhet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}