Naisiin kohdistuvan väkivallan vastaisen päivän tapahtumat olivat eilen hienoja Pikku-Finlandiassa ja kaupungilla. Tässä juhlaseminaarin ohjelma, oranssi Manta ja pätkä Espan lavalta ennen hiljaista kulkuetta 🧡

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Please consider submitting an abstract to our working group "The Entanglement of Gen Z, Democracy and Geopolitics in the Global South" at the #DevDays2026, University of Helsinki, 26–27 February 2026. More about the conference: www.kehitystutkimus.fi/conference/

Call for papers – FSDR@40 | #DevDays2026 Conference | Development in Ruins, Hope in the Cracks: A Time for Reckoning, Reclaiming, and Reawakening | University of Helsinki | 26–27 February 2026 | Keynote speakers: Prof. Walden Bello, SUNY & Robtel Neajai Pailey, LSE www.kehitystutkimus.fi/conference/

Next week, I will be speaking at an interesting event – Nepal’s Gen Z Revolution: Understanding the Uprising and Exploring Democratic Futures – at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

Just before the protests began in Nepal, I attended the Second Inter-Polar Conference: Connecting the Arctic with the Third Pole at ICIMOD. It was just as inspiring as the first conference in 2023. This time, it focused on the cryosphere, people & climate change. www.arcticcentre.org/EN/Inter-Pol...

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Several important events are taking place next week in Helsinki to celebrate 50 years of existence of the Helsinki Accords. Please consider also signing the The Helsinki +50 People’s declaration on common security and human rights.

"Stop the arms race, find peaceful solutions"
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We are delighted to co-host Professor Surinder S. Jodhka from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in May-June. Join us for his intriguing INEQ Keynote ’Re-Cast(e)ing Ascription: Identities, Inequality and Democracy in India’ on Monday 2 June, in Helsinki or online www.helsinki.fi/en/ineq-hels...

SIPRI's annual update on Trends in World Military Expenditure (2024) has been just published, observing an unprecedented rise in global military spending. www.sipri.org/media/press-...

Our call for papers for the special issue 'Strange Activism: Multiple Roles of Resistance Amidst the Crisis of Democracy' in the Journal of Resistance Studies is now out and open until 16 May. resistance-journal.org/call-for-pap...

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SIPRI's report on trends in international arms transfers was published this week. The largest arms exporters in 2020–2024 were US, France, Russia, China and Germany. Full data available here: armstransfers.sipri.org/ArmsTransfer/

An interesting event today @University of Helsinki: Film screening & discussion series ’Power and Resistance of the Image: Latin American Women on the Screen’ by Otroas Feminismoas Finlandia, in collaboration with the RCF funded project ’Social Justice and Raciality in Post-Utopian Latin America’.

#DevDays2025 Conference | Development Transitions: Amidst Waste, Wars, and Maldevelopment | University of Helsinki | 27.-28.2.2025 | Check also pre-conference program on 26.2. | Our registration is still open until tomorrow evening www.kehitystutkimus.fi/conference/