Sia Spiliopoulou-Åkermark

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Sia Spiliopoulou-Åkermark

Associate Professor in International Law (2001) and Director (since 2007) at the Åland Islands Peace Institute (Finland). Currently she heads the research project Demilitarisation in an Increasingly Militarised World. International Perspectives in a Multilevel Regulatory Framework – The Case of the Åland Islands (2015-2017).

In her work Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark has been combining academic efforts with engagement in international organizations and in civil society organizations. She has been a guest researcher and professor in Sweden, Finland, France and the US and was elected as expert member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention on National Minorities of the Council of Europe (2002-2006 and 2010-2014 when she also served for two years as its President). Within the Civic Constellation Network she is particularly interested in questions of democratic legitimacy and participation in law, on which she published 'Participation as a complement to or a substitute of parliamentary democracy?' in Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Kari Palonen and José María Rosales (eds), 2015, 279-298.

Among her numerous other publications on international law, the use of force and human rights are the edited volumes International Obligations and National Debates: Minorities around the Baltic Sea (2006), a special issue of the International Journal of Minority and Group Rights on Rethinking Territorial Arrangements in Conflict Resolution (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2013, with Sarah Stephan); Självstyrelser i Norden i ett fredsperspektiv – Färöarna, Grönland och Åland (with Gunilla Herolf, 2015 with abstracts in English) Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices - Assessing Minority Language Maintenance Across Europe (with Johanna Laakso, Anneli Sarhimaa and Reetta Toivanen; Multilingual Matters, 2016).

 

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