The Arctic - Climate, Culture and Security

08:30 Mingle. Coffee and Sandwich served

08:50 Opening of conference: Project leader Linnéa Palme and Sarah Franzén, Head of Student Union's Job Recruitment Section.

09:00 Audiovisual installation #Sállajiegŋa 201908191457 (2023)
Åsa Stjerna, artist

09:30 What can the Cold War teach us about dealing with today's challenges in the arctic
Roar Espevik, professor in leadership and command and control, Swedish Defence University

10:00 A New Arctic. Implications for the Nordic and euro-Arctic region
Niklas Granholm, Swedish Defence Research Agency

10:30 Where global change science and Arctic geopolitics converge: the Ny-Ålesund Research Station in Svalbard
Dr. Eric Paglia, researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

11:00 The Legal Regime in the Arctic
Hans Corell, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal
Counsel of the United Nations (1994-2004)

11:30-12:30 Lunch break

12:30 Performance by Regina Lund

12:45 An Emerging Security Dilemma in the Arctic? – Implications for the Nordic Countries in a New Cold Order
Major Jesper Kallin, former deputy of Swedish Armed Forces Centre for Cold Weather Operations, now student Swedish Defence University 2:nd year, master level.

13:15 The dream worth waking for (on-line presentation)
How the peace and beauty of the Arctic can inspire in perilous times.
Grethe Bøe, Norway, writer, director & public speaker

13:45 A Healthy Intermission with the Swedish Defence University's Health Educators

14:15 Exercises as an innovative tool for Building Capabilities in Arctic and High North
Maria Jontén, Project Coordinator for Strategic Implications and Innovations Center (SIIC), Project US/Sweden Arctic and High North, expert in Arctic High North Civil preparedness and Civil Defense, Centre for Societal Security, Swedish Defence University

14:45 Coffee break

15:00 Søren Würtz, Greenland, Director of the Nordic Institute on Greenland
On-line presentation

15:30 The importance of data access and international collaboration for Arctic environmental research (on-line presentation)
Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Professor of Marine geology and geophysics

16:00 O-O-D-A(rctic)
Using Boyd’s OODA loop model for arctic operations: What’s different about the arctic, except that it’s really cold?
Chet Richards, former associate of the late Col John R. Boyd, retired USAF colonel

16:30 The Impact on the Strategic Geography of the Baltic Sea Region and the European Arctic by Finland and Sweden Joining NATO
CDR Stefan Lundqvist Ph.D., Pro-Dean, Military Lecturer in War Studies, Swedish Defence University

17:00 Conference ends and Officers' Mess is open.

Regina Lund

Actor, singer, writer, artist and discourser.

Award winning swedish actress and Swedish Grammy nominated artist Regina Lund, based in Stockholm, Sweden, educated at the Teater- och Operahögskolan (Theater and Opera College) in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a wide experience of a life time of success in the fields of acting, drama, theatre, cinema, film, tv, radio, comedy, poetry, writing, improvisation, drama teaching, lecturing , songwriting, lyric writing and music, Regina will guide us through the day and also perform some of her many songs.

Linnéa Palme, organizer of the Arctic seminar.

Palme is a project manager in International Culture and journalist and also a student in Leadership and Command & Control- Intermediate Course at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm.

“Arctic has always been close to my heart, as nature and magic landscape of beauty and horror. In the end of 90s I learned about melting ices and rise of water level. Today I imagine this place more fear than beauty, as war may arrive soon. The ice has retarded in many places and left is resourses like energy, oil and natural gas to be extracted. This will have a huge impact on the economic, territorial, military strategic and climatological factors in the Arctic region. Always when there is gains and loses, mankind are involved. And in this gap Nature is left alone. I have a gut feeling that Sweden will be involved in this competition for gains and losses and I want to protect my country as much as possible, that is why I do this day at the Swedish Defence University. And that is why I do this day about the Arctic, to learn as much as possible in few hours, to learn from different perspectives of knowledge, to feel, to listen and almost touch the ice. First when I have all this mixture of knowledge. I would start my journey on more learning on topics that will interest me on the Arctic, and I hope you all will do the same, we can have different approaches to the problem, and in this way can we engage together, in different ways and solve the problem together, the future war in the Arctic region liked “wicked problems” where, warfare, nature, culture, people, economy and the most important. Arctic itself will be protected in the best. “
– Linnéa Palme, march 2023.

Åsa Stjerna, Artist

#Sállajiegŋa 201908191457.
Audiovisual installation (2023)
Scientific data from hydrophones and time-lapse imagery used to measure calving at the Sállajiegŋa glacier in the northern Scandinavia – merged into one Arctic synchronized moment.
Credits: Nina Kirchner, Felicity Holmes and Martin Schulthess.
#Sállajiegŋa 201908191457 is part of the ongoing research project Sonic Visions of the Arctic in which artist Åsa Stjerna explores scientists use of acoustic technology to investigate global environmental change in the Arctic, and how art can make this audible.
www.asastjerna.com

Roar Espevik, Professor in leadership, Swedish Defence University

What can the Cold War teach us about dealing with today's challenges in the Arctic. Less ice means greater accessibility to resources and changed commercial transport patterns. This increases the risk of uncontrollable competition where the strongest takes advantage at the expense of what is good for the planet as a whole and the smaller players.

Niklas Granholm, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

A New Arctic. Implications for the Nordic and euro-Arctic region.
Geostrategic change and climate warming are two of the main factors contributing to the emergence of a New Arctic Region. Numerous follow-on effects are already being felt and is influencing the Nordic and Euro-Atlantic region.

Dr. Eric Paglia, researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and host of the Polar Geopolitics
podcast, polargeopolitics.com

Where global change science and Arctic geopolitics converge: the Ny-Ålesund Research Station in Svalbard
Conducting scientific research in the High North is a crucial component of the stakeholder narratives constructed by extra-regional states that aspire to influence the future of the Arctic. The former coalmining settlement Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard has played a significant geopolitical role in providing a permanent presence in the High Arctic for the nearly dozen countries, including China, the UK, India, Germany, Japan, Italy and South Korea, that maintain research stations there.

Hans Corell, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations (1994-2004)

The Legal Regime in the Arctic
Knowledge about the legal regime in the Arctic is important. I will therefore focus on the most important treaty here, namely the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) with its three main organs: the International Seabed Authority; the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
It is this convention that is the overriding legal instrument that governs the order in the Arctic Ocean, an ocean of some 14 million square kilometres surrounded by continents. All States Parties are bound by this convention. However, of particularly importance here is that it governs the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf of the five Arctic coastal states: Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America (Alaska). I will also focus on the Arctic Council and Arctic Frontiers, both based in Tromsø, Norway.
My previous material relating to the Arctic can be found here:
Hans Corell - Homepage (havc.se)

Major Jesper Kallin, military student at the Higher Joint Staff Programme

Major Jesper Kallin is former deputy of Swedish Armed Forces Centre for Cold Weather Operations. At present he is studying at the Swedish Defence University Higher Joint Staff Programme, 2:nd year, master level.

An Emerging Security Dilemma in the Arctic? – Implications for the Nordic Countries in a New Cold Order.
How the war in Ukraine and new alliances may affect the global security long term. Could cooperation in the Arctic make way for more global stability

Grethe Bøe, Norge, writer, director and actor

Grethe Bøe is an internationally award winning filmmaker and bestselling author with a deep passion for the Arctic. She has made several TV-series and feature films from the region and the Arctic is also the setting of her most recent books Mayday (Nødrop in Swedish) and Snøleoparden. These are perilous times and Bøe seeks to expose both narratives and forces that profit from a looming conflict between the west and the rest. She also explores values and narratives that unify us. Grethe will relay what makes the
Arctic so unique to her personally and express what its nature and culture can teach us.

The dream worth waking for
How the peace and beauty of the Arctic can inspire in perilous times.

Maria Edlund and Jennie Bergström, Swedish Defence University's Health Educators

Maria Jontén, Project Coordinator for Strategic Implications and Innovations Center (SIIC), Project US/Sweden Arctic and High North. Expert in Arctic High North Civil preparedness and Civil Defense

Exercises as an innovative tool for Building Capabilities in Arctic and High North

With several years in different projects/exercises and other arenas on international, national, regional and local level building capabilities and resilience. Real events, training, exercise, learning and research are central components for innovation in the total Defense.

Søren Würtz, Greenland, Director of the Nordic Institute on Greenland

The Arctic Region has for decades been a region with low military tension. It is in everyone’s interest to continue the path of peace. Culture plays a vital role in this. Søren gives an introduction to the importance of culture in the Arctic Region and Greenland, and the relation between culture and power.

Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Professor of Marine geology and geophysics.

The importance of data access and international collaboration for Arctic environmental research
The question of balancing the need for data access for environmental research with security concerns related to certain geographical information has become increasingly important as tension has risen in the Arctic. In this talk, I will explore this issue by highlighting examples from Greenland that demonstrate the fundamental importance of detailed information about the seafloor for environmental research. I will specifically show the need to know the bathymetry (depth information) to improve predictions of future sea-level rise in a warming climate. By understanding the environment, we can also better appreciate its role in security concerns

Chet Richards was an associate of the late Col John R. Boyd. He is also a retired USAF colonel, retired yoga instructor, and (retired) consultant. He is the author of Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd Applied to Business. He and his wife live in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA.

O-O-D-A(rctic)
Using Boyd’s OODA loop model for arctic operations: What’s different about the arctic, except that it’s really cold?

CDR Stefan Lundqvist Ph.D., Pro-Dean, Military Lecturer in War Studies, Swedish Defence University

The Impact on the Strategic Geography of the Baltic Sea Region and the European Arctic by Finland and Sweden Joining NATO
Sweden's location at a geostrategic crossroads has influenced its security policy for decades, if not centuries. During the Cold War, Sweden and Finland became buffer states between NATO and the Soviet Union. Sweden was purportedly neutral, while Finland was bound by its 1948 Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Pact with the Soviet Union. This presentation elaborates on the Impact on the Strategic Geography of the Baltic Sea Region and the European Arctic by Finland and Sweden Joining NATO.