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  • Last lecture of Nansen´s professor

    Last lecture of Nansen´s professor

    Dr. Loukacheva at the Trans - Arctic Agenda conference.

    Tomorrow, 15th of January at the University of Akureyri, conference hall, dr. Natalia Loukacheva will give a public lecture titled: “Developing Arctic – from Nansen to modern times”. The lecture will take place in room M101 12.00 – 13.00 h and it is open for public.

    Dr. Natalia Loukacheva is a scholar of comparative constitutional and international law with research interests in the circumpolar region, covering eight Arctic States. She was educated at the Urals State Law Academy, Yekaterinburg, Russia (Diploma with Honours in Jurisprudence, 1991-1996; Ph.D. law at the Department of International and Comparative Constitutional Law, 1999) and at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada (S.J.D. – Doctor of Juridical Science degree, 2004).

    Last year dr. Loukacheva was awarded Nansen visiting professorship in Arctic studies.

    The professorship is awarded each year for a twelve months period to a leading scientist working with issues that bear on the legal, economic, social and natural circumstances in the Arctic. It is awarded each year for a twelve months period to a leading scientist working with issues that bear on the legal, economic, social and natural circumstances in the Arctic.

  • Anthony Speca gives a lecture in Akureyri

    Anthony Speca gives a lecture in Akureyri

    Antony Speca

    Today, 18th of April at the University of Akureyri in northern Iceland, Anthony Speca gave speech on Nunavut, Greenland and politics of resource revenues. Another lecture from The Arctic Lecture series, organised by the University of Akureyri, touched upon economic situation in Canadian North and Greenland. Mr Speca highlighted that the idea that Nunavut could one day put more into Confederation than it takes out is not a flight of fancy.

    Nunavut’s entire 2011-12 territorial formula financing grant of about $1.2 billion is less than half of the resource income that Newfoundland and Labrador, the newest net-contributing of “have” province, is projected to collect the same year.

    If self-reliance is truly Nunavut’s aim in negotiatingdevolution, then it seems sensible for Nunavut to align. Co nceptually the fiscal self-reliance it will gain from a share of resource revenues with the political self-reliance it will gain from more province-like power over resource development.

    Anthony Speca is founder and Managing Principal of Polar Aspect, a Nunavut-based consultancy dedicated to public policy, government strategy and economic negotiation in the Canadian and circumpolar North.

    Borgir Research Center in Akureyri

    He has advised government on fiscal policy and the devolution of lands and resources, particularly fiscal federalism and resource-revenue sharing.

    As a columnist for Northern Public Affairs magazine, Anthony also writes on international politics and economics in the Arctic, and its implications for Canada. Anthony is a trained negotiator and accredited mediator, with a special focus on negotiations and disputes involving government, indigenous peoples, or rural or resource-based business.

    Anthony trained as a negotiator at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was accredited as a mediator in both the UK and USA in 2013. Anthony obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1999.

    His research culminated in his book, Hypothetical Syllogistic and Stoic Logic (Brill 2001).

    For more detailed information about the politics of resource revenues of these northern terretories, plese see the Speca’s report here.

    Source

    UNAK

  • Towards an Arctic Governance: What role for France and Europe

    Towards an Arctic Governance: What role for France and Europe

    Michel RocardMichel Rocard, a former Prime Minister and now a special representative for the President of France with regards to matters concerning the poles, Arctic and Antarctic, gave a lecture “Towards an Arctic Governance: What role for France and Europe?” at the University of Iceland on November 1, 2010. The lecture is part of a series organized by the President of Iceland, entitled “New Currents” in which various internationally known scholars and world leaders have taken part over the years.

    Michel Rocard has a long political career behind him. He has served as a Minister of Agriculture in France and was the Prime Minister of France between 1988-1991. He held a seat in the European Parliament for three terms and has been especially active in matters concerning foreign policy, education and employment. In this lecture he will share his vision for the North and discuss the role of Europe in the future of the Arctic region.

    Michel Rocard from Kennslumiðstöð Háskóla Ísl on Vimeo.