Previous events and webinars

How do NGOs use algorithms and data-driven tools for predictive analysis in their humanitarian response?

The seminar analyses the institutional architecture of how and where finance for climate change adaptation is spent and which route of transfer it follows from national to local levels

From climate change to artificial intelligence, China will need to play an important role if the world is to meet its mounting ecological and technological challenges. But how should we balance cooperation and competition with an assertive China?

A retrospective seminar with and for senior researcher Finn Stepputat

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has upended the political constellation of the wider Europe. In the wake of the invasion, The European Political Community (EPC) was launched in October 2022 by 44 European countries, including all 27 EU member states. The EPC's establishment raises new questions about the European security architecture and institutional alignment in light of Russia’s invasion. At this webinar we take a closer look at what this new body can and cannot achieve.

To understand what future course, Greenland might be setting itself on, DIIS in collaboration with Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland invites for a seminar in Nuuk

Autoetnography is emerging as a trend in current research. Come and reflect on the different ways to use personal experience and positionality with four migration scholars

The control of trade and transport is key to statemaking. A new book suggests that this, rather than the control of people and territory, can make or unmake state projects in areas like Somalia. This seminar introduces the ideas behind the book

This seminar will bring together international Myanmar experts to provide critical insights into the dynamics of the armed resistance after the military coup and drawing in a historical perspective

Researcher explains why great powers like China and India challenge international order.

Occupying a square to prevent the Sharia-judge from amputating a teenager’s hand, spraying forbidden graffiti at public buildings, secretly listening to nonreligious music at home, or shouting anti-jihadist slogans with hundreds of others at a public protest: these are only a few examples of a much larger range of nonviolent resistance behavior displayed by civilians who have lived under the repressive rule of jihadists

In this seminar, leading international experts take stock of Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy initiative in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, which has exacerbated the tensions between democracy and authoritarianism

Laura Sjoberg introduces the notion of "sex rule" in this talk. Looking at marriage, reproduction, migration and asylum cases, and homonormativity, she argues that sex rules matter in global politics and international security

Denmark has launched its campaign for the UNSC in 2025-2026 but what can Denmark hope to achieve in the UN Security Council if elected?

During the Cold War 2.000 nuclear bombs were detonated. At this seminar, Professor Robert Jacobs presents his latest work on the consequences and legacies of the hidden, limited nuclear war waged against indigenous and former colonial populations

Highly relevant 1,5-day conference with over 20 experts on security challenges in the Baltic Sea Region

A year into Russia's war in Ukraine and with the UN Security Council caught up in great power rivalry, this event explores strategies available to non-permanent elected members of the UN Security Council to exert influence

This webinar brings together officials and experts from Denmark, Greenland, Norway and Finland to discuss the current and future state of the Arctic Council following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

How to develop societies that benefit the weakest sections in the Global North as well as in the Global South? What are the possibilities of anti-capitalist democratic development?

This seminar brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss pathways for a broadened climate security agenda on fragile states centered on addressing livelihood and security needs of populations

The seminar explores the underlying causes of Russia’s war in Ukraine and discusses its implications for international order, with a special focus on the UN system

At least two positions are taking shape around the ongoing war in Ukraine. One states that the world is facing the same old Russia, and so any change can come as a result of its defeat on the battlefield. The other is detecting important changes in Russian foreign policy articulations and political culture generally. The seminar will focus on the analytical tools required for deciding between these two positions

Defying the state in theory and practice