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