The Concept of Peaceful Arctic Once Again
For a long time, after the 1980s, the Arctic region gained significance as an exceptional zone of peace, a region that bears no pretext for conflicts and may even become a sort of olive branch that, instead of generating conflicts, resolves them.
A History of the Northern Forum
In December 1974, representatives from Canadian and U.S. subnational entities and from the capital cities of Norway, Sweden and Finland convened on the Japanese island of Sapporo for the first International Conference on Human Environment in Northern Regions.
Towards Dialogue and Negotiations
The Ukrainian crisis affects all relations between Russia and the West, not least in the Arctic regions. From a Finnish perspective, a shift towards a readiness for discussion and negotiation to end the war conflict in Ukraine is therefore of paramount importance for restoring and developing cooperation in the Arctic region and more generally.

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