22 march 2018
Session leader: Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, UiT
Each session will be a roundtable rather than a paper presentation. The goal is to encourage discussion around the different topics.
13.00-14.30 Intersectional approaches to understanding human security
This section will examine the ways in which intersectionality is important to understanding human security/bottom-up security amongst Arctic communities and their members. The session will examine how perspectives on indigeneity, gender, orientation, race, economy and age intersect in the Arctic, why intersectionality is central to analyses in the Arctic, and the perpetuation of inequalities, marginalizations, and colonial relationships by not doing so.
Henri Myrttinen, the Head of Gender, International Alert, peacebuilding organisation, London
Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network
Stephan Dudeck, U Lapland
Zerihun Woldeselassie, UiT
May-Britt Öhman, Uppsala
14.30-14.50 Coffee break
14.55-15.40: Plenary Session: Gender Equality in the Governance of the Arctic Region (this might be in Swedish – if so, our session will continue earlier)
(14.55 or) 15.45-16.45: Migration in the Arctic
This section will be open to examine various aspects of migration processes in the Arctic, from the migration of settler communities and their impacts on indigenous peoples including assimilation/integration policies, to the migration of “new” Arctic residents and the ways in which assimilation/integration politics have differed or remain the same. Questions include in which ways migration in the Arctic either strengthen or weaken human security for different populations and why.
Markus Meckl, UNAK
Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir, UNAK
Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, U Iceland
Gord Cooke, Memorial U
Aileen Aseron Espirantu, UiT
16.45-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.30 Intersectional perspectives and economies, environment/climate change and energy
This final section will address how we might understand the tensions and intersectional impacts on security between economic, environmental and energy security. How do we understand the interaction between competing needs for energy (fossil fuel to renewable and who relies on what and why), economies (who has access and why, competition between traditional and market economies), and impacts of Arctic extractive industries on environmental issues (pollution, climate change).
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, UiT
Florian Stammler, U Lapland
Auður H Ingólfsdóttir, UNAK
Dmitri Berezhkov, UiT hgaad