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24 March, 2022

Policy brief: 300 000 from Ukraine wants to come to Sweden

According to a new Policy Brief by Swedish Delmi, a third of all Ukrainians - 12 million - wanted to move permanently to another country when asked by Gallup World Poll in summer 2021. 300 000 of them

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12 November, 2020
I coronapandemins fotspår - reaktioner i världen

I coronapandemins fotspår - reaktioner i världen

Bi Puranen, generalsekreterare för World Values Survey berättar hur man under 2020 börjat studera hur 25 000 personer i världen (varav 2 000 i Sverige) reagerat på coronapandemin.

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21 December, 2016

Funding received for research projects about democracy and equality

Last week the institute was granted 8 million SEK by the Wallenberg Foundations for two research projects that will go on for four years. The boundary problem in democratic theory. Gustaf Arrhenius was g

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22 October, 2013

Outstanding academic title 2012

Population Aging and the Generational Economy The American magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries has chosen the book Population Aging and the Generational Economy(eds: Ronald Lee, Andrew

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23 September, 2022

No Escape from Tradition? Source Country Culture and Gendered Employment Patterns among Immigrants in Sweden

International Journal of Sociology Abstract The study aims to explore whether gendered family roles in the country of origin and the country of destination explain labor market outcomes for immigrants i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Anne Grönlund
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30 October, 2017

Arne Jarrick & Maria Wallenberg Bondesson: The cultural dynamics of law-making – A world history

Prof. Arne Jarrick and PhD. Maria Wallenberg Bondesson, Centre for the study of Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University and Institute for Futures Studies.ABSTRACTOur presentation gives significant hig

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22 October, 2013

Ernst Fehr on the individual and society at seminar

Ernst Fehr On the 7th of December 2012 the tipped Nobel Prize-candidate and Professor of Economics Ernst Fehr came to visit the Institute for Futures Studies in order to hold the seminar "The Weave of

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09 September, 2016

Karin Bäckstrand: The Role of Non-state Actors in Global Climate Governance after COP22 in Marrakech

Professor in Environmental Social Science, Stockholm University ABSTRACTWhat is the roles of non-state actors, such as civil society, business, indigenous movements and cities, in global climate and th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen to COP22 in Marrakech, where Marrakech Global Climate Action was launched involving voluntary climate action commitments from more than 12 000 companies, investors, cities and regions, and civil society actors. Over this timeframe, we have seen a form of ‘hybrid multilateralism’ emerge, in which UN climate diplomacy blurs state and non-state participation in complex and intriguing ways with implications for the authority, legitimacy, and effectiveness of climate governance. This speaks, in different ways, to the transformed landscape of climate cooperation with a strengthened interface of multilateral climate diplomacy and non-state climate action and the potential roles, modes, and effects of non-state actors in the post-Paris period.

Professor in Environmental Social Science, Stockholm University
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17 May, 2023

William MacAskill: What we owe the future - planning for a million years

Location: Kulturhuset, Sergels torg in Stockholm Buy your ticket at Billetto > The philosopher William MacAskill is known to many as one of the founders of Effective Altruism, the movement that has rec

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26 September, 2018

The importance of protecting religious buildings in war

It has been a long and violent conflict, but the parties have finally come to an agreement to put down their weapons – now it’s time for peace to settle in society. Unfortunately, there are a limited

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