Yannick Poullie is a junior researcher in ÅIPI’s research project ”Demilitarisation in an increasingly militarized world. International perspectives in a multilevel framework – the case of the Åland Islands”, funded by the KONE foundation. He holds a master’s degree in “Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research” from the University of Tampere, Finland. Prior to that he studied at the University of Düsseldorf and the University of Turku, respectively. Interning experiences include the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and the German embassy in the Kingdom of Sweden.
In his project work he is studying Finnish and Ålandic parliamentary discussions with regard to Åland’s status as a demilitarised and neutralised area during the period from 1989 to 1995 which saw both the end of the Cold War and Finland’s accession to the European Union.
