Diplomacy in a Changing Global Environment

We welcome you to a seminar on the possibilities and challenges of diplomacy in today’s increasingly complex policy environment. The seminar will explore the consequences of a changing diplomatic environment to international cooperation and its credibility.

These changes, and their consequences, are various. This seminar will look in to how the increased questioning of the legitimacy of international structures and agreements influence ongoing global policy work. And how does the changing role of traditionally strong international actors, like the USA and EU, influence diplomacy? International policy networks are also growing, and non-state actors are more often involved in global processes. What is the role of e.g. religious leaders, Goodwill ambassadors, NGO’s, and business representatives in global diplomacy today?

The seminar will be held in Hanaholmen on Tuesday 6th of March 2018 from 14:00 pm to 16.00 pm.

You can join the Friends of the UN (YK:n ystävät) here.

Programme

Preliminary programme, small changes possible

13.30 Coffee

14.00 Welcoming words, Gunvor Kronman, CEO Hanaholmen – the Finnish-Swedish Cultural Centre

Keynote speeches by

His Excellency Serge Tomasi, Ambassador of France
Efraim Gomez, Head of UN Policy Department Sweden (tbc)
Tytti Tuppurainen, MP, Chair of the UN Association

15.00 Panel: Role of non-state actors in global diplomacy

Jutta Urpilainen, MP, Foreign Minister's Special Envoy on Peace and Security Chair of the Finnish National Commission for UNESCO
Helena Ranta, Professor, Forensic dentist
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Professor of the Arabic language and Islamic studies at the University of Edinburg (tbc)
Ritva Semi, Special Advisor, The Trade Union of Education in Finland
Peter Vesterbacka, Entrepeneur (tbc)
Gunvor Kronman, CEO Hanaholmen
Rauli Virtanen, a freelance journalist and television producer

All panelist are members of the Board of Friends of the UN in Finland

16.00 Q&A

16.15 Closing

Place: Hanaholmen – Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre (Hanasaarenranta 5, Espoo, Finland)
Time: Tuesday 6th of March 2018 14:00 pm–16:00 pm

Organizers:

UN Association of Finland in cooperation with Friends of the UN in Finland
Finnish National Commission for UNESCO and
Hanaholmen – Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre

Participation is free of charge, please register no later than 1st of March: Registration link

For further information, please contact:
Helena Laukko, UN Association of Finland, 044 7810303, helena.laukko(at)ykliitto.fi or Tina Räihä, Hanaholmen, 040 5636846, tina.raiha(at)hanaholmen.fi