On behalf of Finland´s presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2021 conducted in close cooperation with Åland, FIIA is organizing a Conference regarding cooperation between the Nordic states and Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland as an example of sustainable democracy. The conference will be held in co-operation with the Åland government, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Åland Islands Peace Institute and Nordic Council of Ministers.
The purpose of the conference is to present the strong democratic systems in the Nordic region, including the way in which the Faroe Islands, Åland and Greenland participate in Nordic co-operation and how their participation increases sustainable democracy in the Nordic region. A sustainable democracy that counteracts conflicts between areas and regions as well as between countries. In line with the vision adopted by the Nordic Prime Ministers, which states that the Nordic region will be the world’s most sustainable and integrated region by 2030, it is also interesting to show how the democratic systems in the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland can be examples of and even forerunners of social and environmental sustainability.
The conference will be held in Copenhagen on the 8th of December 2021. Please see the programme here.
You can follow the livestream here.
The report “The Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Åland Islands in Nordic cooperation” by Katja Creutz and Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark acts as a background to the conference.