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Public lecture: The First Greenlandic Foreign Policy Opinion Poll

A KAS-funded Ilisimatusarfik study

Ilisimatusarfik and The KAS Nordic Countries Project are proud to invite you to a online public lecture presenting the very first foreign policy opinion poll ever carried out in Greenland, asking Greenlanders what they think about Greenland's place in the world.

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"No"-side protesters ahead of the 1982 Greenlandic European Communities membership referendum Peer Pedersen / Ritzau Scanpix
"No"-side protesters ahead of the 1982 Greenlandic European Communities membership referendum

New report by Maria Ackrén & Rasmus Leander Nielsen, Ilisimatusarfik: "The First Foreign- And Security Policy Opinion Poll in Greenland".

Ilisimatusarfik has conducted a public opinion poll amongst the Greenlandic population on foreign and security policy issues during November - December 2020 in cooperation with HS Analyse.

This has been done in cooperation with HS Analyse in Nuuk and has been financed by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Nordic Countries Project in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please join us for a presentation of our findings as well as a panel discussion with members of the Inatsisartut Foreign and Security Policy Committee!

 

When: 18 February 2021, from 13.00 - 15.30 CET (09.00 - 11.30 Nuuk time).

Where: the auditorium at campus Ilimmarfik and online via Microsoft Teams.

 

PROGRAM

13.00-13.10 Opening remarks by Kenneth Høegh, Department of Foreign Affairs

13.10-13.30 Presentation of survey by Maria Ackrén & Rasmus LeanderNielsen, Ilisimatusarfik

13.30-14.15Political debate, MPs from the Foreign and Security Policy Committee

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14.30-14.45 Comparative Nordic surveys on foreign policy – and Greenland in perspective by Gabriele Baumann & Richard Forsén, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (online via Teams)

14.45-14.50 Concluding remarks by Maria Ackrén & Rasmus Leander Nielsen, Ilisimatusarfik

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15.00-15.30 Q&A

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Venue

Microsoft Teams (link on the left)

Speakers

  • Kenneth Høegh
    • Government of Greenland Department of Foreign Affairs
  • Maria Ackrén
    • Associate professor
    • ph.d.
    • research coordinator at Ilisimatusarfik (the University of Greenland)
  • Rasmus Leander Nielsen
    • Assistant professor at Ilisimatusarfik
  • Gabriele Baumann
    • Head of the KAS Nordic Countries Project
  • Richard Forsén
    • Research Associate
    • KAS Nordic Countries Project
  • Aleqa Hammond (Nunatta Qitornai)
    • Chairman of the Inatsisartut Foreign and Security Policy Committee
  • Pele Broberg (Partii Naleraq)
    • Member of the Inatsisartut Foreign and Security Policy Committee
  • Justus Hansen (Demokraatit)
    • Member of the Inatsisartut Foreign and Security Policy Committee

Publication

The First Greenlandic Foreign Policy Opinion Poll: A KAS-funded Ilisimatusarfik study by Maria Ackrén and Rasmus Leander Nielsen
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Contact

Richard Forsén

Project Coordinator and Research Associate

richard.forsen@kas.de +46 (0) 8 611 7000
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