UNDERSTANDING PEACE IN THE ARCTIC

The Arctic is often claimed to be a unique region, both for its natural environment, as well as the peaceful political conditions that continue to prevail, despite the tensions and challenges taking place on a global scale. Cooperation in the Arctic has shown to be robust and in some ways detached from disagreements and tensions developing elsewhere in international relations. The Understanding Peace in the Arctic conference is a timely international event that brings together international and local researchers that contribute to the understanding of the Arctic, ranging from natural sciences, to social sciences and art. The purpose of the conference is to ask what is “Peace” in the Arctic, in which ways, or how, does our research across the disciplines play a crucial role in contributing to peace in the Arctic, and how is our research relevant to developing policy?

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We are pleased to announce two keynote speakers, one who is a leading researcher in Arctic research and diplomacy, and one who is a prominent peace activist in Norway. 

Hedda Bryn Langemyr is the director of the Peace Council in Norway, and active in the public debate on issues related to peace and security, particularly in Norway, NATO and Russia.  

Professor Alan K. Henrikson is Lee E. Dirks Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus and the founding Director of Diplomatic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. 

Foto: Gandhi covered in snowqueen (Stig Brøndbo, UiT)

Speakers additionally include the alumni of the 2015-2016 “Fulbright Arctic Initiative,” partners/colleagues part of the Nansen Professorship collaboration between UiT and the University of Akureyri, and Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) partners from Russia. 

Venue: Centre for Peace Studies

PROGRAM (with final updates):

13 JUNE

13:00 - Opening and welcome to the UiT by Rektor Anne Husebekk

13:10 - Welcome to the Centre for Peacestudies by director Christine Smith-Simonsen

13:20 - Welcome to the conference by convenor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv

13:30-14:30 - Keynote Speaker Alan Henrikson, Tufts University, USA: The Arctic "Peace" Projection. From Cold War "Front" to Cooperative "Forum"

 

15:00-17:00 - Global Arctic 

Nikolai Holm, Nord University, Norway.Curating the Menagerie: Societal security through construction and securitization of identity in Europe 

Barbora Padrtová, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. The Arctic: A unique regional security complex? What can we learn from it? 

Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network, Iceland.Gender Equality and the Arctic.

John Kilbourne, Grand Valley State University, USA. Using Traditional Games to Promote Sustainability & Peace in the Arctic

Alexandra Smirnova, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia.The contribution of the peace movement in the North of Europe to peace in the Arctic

  

14 JUNE

09:00-11:00 - Russia and Arctic Peace Dynamics

Morgane Fert-Malka, Freelance political analyst, Moscow, Russia. Process tracing and intelligence as instruments for peace: the case of Russia's Arctic policies 

Maria Lvova, UiT, Norway. Divided By Language 

Alexandra Vasina, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia.The researching of the Arctic: Georgy Sedov’s expedition in the assessments of historians and contemporaries 

Aytalina Ivanova, UiT, Norway. Russia’s position in international peace processes and its influence on Indigenous Peoples 

Anna Veldiukhova, Petrosavodsk State University, Russian Federation. “International educational projects’ role in constructing cross-border cooperation in the Arctic region”

 

11:00-12:00 - FILM PRESENTATION: Living with Boko Haram, by Trond Waage, UiT, Norway

 

12:00-14:00 - Ecosystems, Climate Change, and Health of the Arctic 

Rabia Kalfaoglu, Moscow State University, Russia. Politics of Climate Change and Its influence on Cooperation and Conflict Dynamics in the Arctic Region  

Laura Sokka, Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland.Impacts of Climate Change on economic activities in the European Arctic 

Níels Einarsson, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland.Climate, governance and pathways to peace 

Anne Merrild Hansen (with Melanie Plante and Greg Poelzer). Aalborg University, Denmark. Finding Common Ground: establishing productive relationships between communities and industry in uranium mining in the Arctic 

 

14.30-16:30 - Indigenous and Local Peoples and Peace in the Arctic 

Lydia Schoeppner, University of Manitoba, Canada.Inuit approaches to conflict – observations on a peaceful society 

Noor Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. #UniteAgainstSeismic: Activism, sustainability, and peace in the Arctic 

Maria Tysiachniouk, Centre for independent Social research, st Petersburg, Russia and Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Between conflict and cooperation in the Arctic: interactions between indigenous peoples and oil companies 

Florian Stammler. University of Lapland, Finland. Using local knowledge to minimize risk of conflicts in Arctic industrial development in Russia 

Camilla Brattland, UiT Norway. The TriArc project: The Arctic governance triangle: government, Indigenous peoples and industry in change 

  

15 JUNE

09:00-10:00 - Keynote Speaker Hedda Bryn Langemyr, Norwegian Peace Council: NATO, Norway and Russia. New Cold War and Prospects for Peace

19:30-12.30 - Policy and Peace 

Vladimir Pacheco Cueva, Aarhus University, Denmark.The right hand does not know what the left hand does or why poor linkages between the energy security and resource extraction research literatures result in conflictual policy 

Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, UiT, Norway. What peace in the Arctic? Can policy in the Arctic contribute to international peace?

Benjamin Schaller, UiT, Norway.The Need for a Transregional Perspective on Military Security in the High North 

Gutenev Maxim, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia.Scientific diplomacy of China in the Arctic 

Piotr Graczyk, UiT, Norway. Arctic Council and regional security: soft actions, hard effects?

 

13.30-15:30 – Creating the Arctic: Art, Design and Education 

Itty Neuhaus, State University of New York. USA.One Arctic: Many Visions, Violence and Fertility under the Ice 

Tatiana Zotova, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russian Federation. Peaceful Arctic": the Russian artistic representation of the late XIX century 

Alisa Taran, Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia. Inclusion and modern education in the Arctic 

Tatiana Yakovleva, Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia.Parenting style as a factor of identity in a multicultural society in the Arctic

Asli Tepecik Dis, Nordregio, Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation of an Arctic city and transformative change towards sustainability: Kiruna’s urban transformation in times of uncertainty

 

15:30-16:00 - Concluding remarks Lassi Heininen, University of Lapland, Finland

 

Starter: 13.06.17 kl 13.00
Slutter: 15.06.17 kl 15.00
Hvor: Centre for Peace Studies
Sted: Tromsø
Målgruppe: alle
E-post: christine.smith-simonsen@uit.no
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