Editorial Team

Editor in Chief

Kjell-Åke Nordquist

Kjell-Åke Nordquist is a professor in International Relations, with particular focus on Peace Building and Human Rights at the University College Stockholm in Sweden.
He has been working in the fields of autonomy and conflict resolution both as a researcher and a practitioner, and has been a member of the Board as well as the Research Council of the Åland Islands Peace Institute since its start.

Assisting Editor

Petra Granholm

Petra Granholm works at  the Åland Islands Peace Institute. Her background is in international law and environmental management. Petra holds a master’s degree from Åbo Akademi University, Finland and a Master of Resource Management from the University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Editorial Board

Katja Creutz

Katja Creutz holds an LLD from the University of Helsinki and is Programme Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Creutz is the chair of the Research Council of the Åland Islands Peace Institute . Her research interests are international law, especially responsibility issues; human rights and global governance.

Niklas Bremberg 

Niklas Bremberg is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Stockholm University. He is also associated as a researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and SIPRI. His research focuses on European integration and European foreign and security policy. He has also conducted research on pro-independence parties in Europe. He is theoretically interested in issues related to diplomatic practices, security communities and the relationship between climate change and international security. Bremberg is member of the Research Council of the Åland Islands Peace Institute.

Janne Holmén

Janne Holmén is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Education at Uppsala University. He holds a PhD in history. He defended his thesis at Uppsala University in 2006 on how the different foreign policy positions of Norway, Sweden and Finland during the Cold War affected the portrayal of the USA and the Soviet Union in the countries’ textbooks. Holmén has also conducted research on regional identity and regional historiography on islands in the Baltic Sea and on mental maps and historical views among high school students in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions.

Susann Simolin

Susann Simolin is Director of the Åland Islands Peace Institute and a doctoral student in political science at Åbo Akademi University. She holds a master’s degree in political science from Åbo Akademi University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Gothenburg.