Sia Spiliopoulou-Åkermark
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Sia Spiliopoulou-Åkermark
Sia Spiliopoulou-Åkermark is the director of the Åland Islands Peace Institute (Mariehamn, Åland, Finland) and responsible for the research activities. She received her doctoral degree in international law at the Faculty of Law, University of Uppsala (Sweden) in 1997 and became associate profesor in international public law at the same university in 2001. She was acting professor at Åbo Akademi University in the autumn of 1997. Spiliopoulou-Åkermark has published several books, edited volumes, and more than 50 articles and reports in the fields of international law, human rights, indigenous peoples and minority rights. She speaks Swedish, Greek, English and French.
Selected publications: Justifications of Minority Protection in International Law (Iustus Publishers & Kluwer International, Uppsala & Dordrecht, 1997); as editor, Human Rights Education: Achievements and Challenges (Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, in collaboration with The Finnish National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO, 1998); Human Rights of Minority Women – a manual of international law (The Åland Islands Peace Institute, Finland, 2000); edited with Maja K. Eriksson and Olle Mårsäter, Documents in Public International Law (Norstedts juridik, Stockholm, 2000 - 2nd edition, 2008); International Obligations and National Debates: Minorities around the Baltic Sea (red. Ålands fredsinstitut, 2006); as editor, Constitutions, Autonomies and the EU (Report from the Åland Islands Peace Institute, No. 3-2008); 'Understanding the Multiple Justifications of Minority Protection’, in Kari Palonen & Anthoula Malkopoulou (eds), Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change (Suomen Ateenan-Instituutin säätiö - Foundation of the Finnish Institute in Athens, 2011, 72-85); The Åland Example and Its Components – Relevance for International Conflict Resolution (Mariehamn: The Åland Islands Peace Institute, 2011).
E-mail: sia (at) peace.ax
Web: http://www.peace.ax/en/about-us/staff
