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Beyond Operation Protective Edge
The most recent conflict in Gaza – Operation Protective Edge – brought to the fore crucially important debates in both international law and the ethics of war. In November this year, a group of intern

Beyond Operation Protective Edge
This is a seminar on international law and war ethics, taking Operation Protective Edge as an example. The seminar was held at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm 2015. Participants: He
Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the royal society Biological Sciences Abstract Cultural evolution typically studies how ideas and behaviours spread and change depending on how we learn and from whom. A new model suggest
Completed: Crossing boundaries in social work. Collaborative partnerships and interventions towards particularly vulnerable areas in Sweden
The study explores welfare governance in relation to disadvantaged areas in Sweden. The project aims to contribute with knowledge about how to build trust, promote safety, and break a negative societal development.
Ghost Platform at September Sessions: Dirty details of the clean startup chime
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist

Kremlin influence and the destabilization of Swedish democracy
An analysis of geostrategic market offensives, Russian influence operations, Swedish partners, and the threat of oligarchic capitalism
Competition Policy and the Swedish Model
The aim of this paper is to present some findings from a study on the development of competition policy in Sweden since 1945. The comprehensive questions are about the view on knowledge in competition
War ethics and international law – a discussion with academics, practitioners and policy-makers
In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military action against Gaza called "Operation Protective Edge", as a response to Hamas rocket attacks. The conflict brought to the fore important debates in b
Governing for Future Generations: How Political Trust Shapes Attitudes Towards Climate and Debt Policies
in: Frontiers in political science AbstractPolicy decisions, and public preferences about them, often entail judgements about costs people should be willing to pay for the benefit of future generations

Göran Holmqvist
I have been a project researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies since January 2025 and work with migration-related research funded by DELMI, the Delegation for Migration Studies. My research con