Conference focused on ‘Nordic Solidarity for Peace’

On 9-11 October 2023, researchers from DIIS participated in an international conference with the title "The Imagine Forum: Nordic Solidarity for Peace" in Reykjavík, Iceland. The conference was hosted by the Höfði Reykjavík Peace Centre in collaboration with The Icelandic Presidency for the Nordic Council of Ministers, in order to create a platform to discuss the future vision of the Nordic countries for sustainable peace.

The aim of the conference was to bring together scholars and policymakers to engage in a dialogue on how Nordic countries can better promote sustainable peace and respond to the most pressing global challenges of the 21st Century, including armed conflicts and climate change.

DIIS Researchers Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Dino Krause and Justine Chambers organised and participated in a panel highlighting the complex nature of contemporary armed conflicts – the way they are driven by a range of factors, including scarce resources, ideologies, ethnic politics, historical dynamics/grievances, climate change and spillover effects from rivalries between regional or global powers – and how these multi-layered dynamics challenge ways of thinking about conflict resolution.

In the panel, Dino Krause spoke about conflicts involving jihadist actors; Justine Chambers discussed conflicts accelerated by climate change and Isabel Bramsen, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at Lund University, spoke about how multipolarity affects conflict resolution thinking.