{"id":33582,"date":"2025-08-12T07:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/publikation\/the-aland-example-and-its-components-relevance-for-international-conflict-resolution\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:12:26","slug":"the-aland-example-and-its-components-relevance-for-international-conflict-resolution","status":"publish","type":"publikation","link":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/publication\/the-aland-example-and-its-components-relevance-for-international-conflict-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u00c5land Example and Its Components \u2013 Relevance for International Conflict Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The publication presents the conclusions from a research project that was conducted during 2010 and 2011. The original research project followed two strands; continuity and change as characteristics of the \u00c5land Regime on the one hand, and the \u00c5land Example as a tool in international conflict resolution on the other. Sia Spilopoulou \u00c5kermark, Sarah Stephan and Heidi \u00d6st have outlined features of both continuity and change in what can be classified as the three components of the \u00c5land Example: the autonomy regime and its institutional design, the demilitarisation and neutralization, and the cultural and linguistic safeguards of the minority protection regime.<\/p>\n<p>While conflict resolution literature covers a wide area of subjects, there has been limited attention paid to the role of territorial autonomy as a possible conflict resolution tool. Moving beyond the formal aspects of the division of competences between center and periphery, the present book achieves a dual goal. It develops an analytical tool for understanding the durability and robustness of evolving autonomy arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Further it documents and analyses how the \u00c5land Example and its three major components (autonomy, demilitarization and language and culture safeguards) have been used in specific disputes and conflict situations, including in the Caucasus, in Kashmir, in Japan, in East Timor, Tibet and the Israel-Palestine conflict. The book represents a unique combination of theoretical<br \/>\ninsights with the experiences of well-known diplomats and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The volume further features contributions by Professor Emeritus Yash Ghai, who has provided a comparative perspective, Professor Kjell-\u00c5ke Nordquist, who has written on the use of the \u00c5land Example in connection with the negotiations on the international status of East Timor in the end of the 1990s\u201d, Dr. Fuijo Ohnishi, who contributed with an analysis on the Japanese perspectives on the \u00c5land Example and by Member of Parliament Elisabeth Naucl\u00e9r who has written on her experience in the application of the \u00c5land Example, among others on the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>Spiliopoulou \u00c5kermark, Stephan and \u00d6st had the opportunity to interview prominent diplomats, politicians and scholars, namely Heikki Talvitie, Jan Eliasson, P\u00e4r Stenb\u00e4ck, Terhi Hakala, Thorvald Stoltenberg and Sten Widmalm, on the use of the \u00c5land example in relation to the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Kashmir, South Sudan and Israel-Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25967,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"forfattare":[1255,1256,1257,1258,1228,1221],"redaktor":[1253],"sprak":[1400],"typ":[1404],"class_list":["post-33582","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","forfattare-gai-yash","forfattare-naucler-elisabeth","forfattare-nordquist-kjell-ake","forfattare-ohnishi-fujio","forfattare-ost-heidi","forfattare-stephan-sarah","redaktor-spiliopoulou-akermark-sia","sprak-engelska-en","typ-bok-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/33582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikation"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/33582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"forfattare","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forfattare?post=33582"},{"taxonomy":"redaktor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/redaktor?post=33582"},{"taxonomy":"sprak","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sprak?post=33582"},{"taxonomy":"typ","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typ?post=33582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}