On 27–29 August, Torunn L. Tryggestad and Inger Skjelsbæk attended the Pan-European Conference of the European International Studies Association (EISA) in Bologna.
They contributed to several roundtable discussions, including one organised by Skjelsbæk on Humanising IR and Politics of Care. This session focused in particular on how international relations and politics can either humanise or dehumanise, and respect or violate, the rights of children born of war. The roundtable was sponsored by Skjelsbæk’s ERC-funded EuroWARCHILD project.
Tryggestad also took part in a roundtable on A New European Security Order: What Role for the Emerging Nordic-Baltic Nexus, organised by PRIO Director Nina Græger. The discussion examined the role of the NB8 – the small states in the Nordic and Baltic regions – and how they navigate today’s rapidly shifting diplomatic and political landscape from diverse strategic, historical, and cultural perspectives. Tryggestad highlighted the NB8’s growing collaboration on normative agendas such as Women, Peace and Security.
