Events

Book launch: Russia’s Hybrid War: The Northern Front

September 15, 2025
Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Nordics invites you to the launch of the new book “Russia’s Hybrid War: The Northern Front.” Building on a previous report published by Frivärld in 2024, this expanded volume deepens the analysis and offers ...

Stolen Childhoods: Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children

May 12, 2025
Since the onset of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has systematically abducted Ukrainian children from occupied territories. These children, often taken under the pretense of “humanitarian evacuations,” have been subjected to forced deportations, Russification, and adoption into Russian ...

Nordic-Baltic-Poland Roundtable

March 31, 2025
On March 31, the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) hosted a roundtable discussion on Nordic leadership and greater Nordic-Baltic-Polish cooperation. Discussion focused on how to further integrate the Nordic-Baltic region across sectors, and Poland’s emerging role as a regional defense ...

Discussion on the Transatlantic Relationship

February 18, 2025
Forecast of the Transatlantic Relationship: One Month into Trump’s Second Term. On February 18th, Stockholm Free World Forum will host a discussion on the transatlantic relationship. This talk will take place nearly one month into Donald Trump’s presidency and will ...

Breakfast seminar on Nordic-Baltic security cooperation

January 31, 2024
Stockholm Free World Forum is organizing a breakfast seminar on Nordic-Baltic security cooperation. The Nordic-Baltic relationship is of great importance today, especially considering Sweden’s expected NATO membership. It is crucial for Sweden to increase its focus on strengthening defense and ...

Seminar: TEMPERATURE GAUGE: THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY – NEITHER ROSES OR COLLAPSE

October 16, 2023
Russia after the sanctions – what does the future look like? What significance have the international sanctions had on Russia and what does the economic situation look like going forward? Stockholm Free World Forum presents a new brief by Anders ...

Seminar: SITUATION TAIWAN – CHINESE ESCALATION, RISKS AND DETERRENCE

October 5, 2023
Stockholm Free World Forum held a seminar to launch the report Taiwan Situation – Chinese Escalation, Risks and Deterrence. The report provides an overview of Taiwan’s situation as well as what Sweden and like-minded states can do so that China ...

LUNCH SEMINAR: TOTAL DEFENSE FOR NATO – SWEDEN’S STRATEGIC CHALLENGE AT SEA

August 25, 2023
Welcome to a seminar where senior fellow Patrik Oksanen presents Stockhom Free World Forum’s strategic analysis that is behind the recommendations made in the report This is how total defense should be strengthened before NATO membership and focuses on the ...

Pre-launch: Stronger Together – Sweden and Finland on the Road Toward NATO

September 28, 2022
On May 18th, 2022, the Swedish and Finnish NATO ambassadors formally submitted their membership applications to the alliance. In doing so, they ended decades – in Sweden’s case, centuries – of military nonalignment and overlapping but varied security arrangements in ...

Webinar: Lessons for Belarus from Estonia

January 20, 2022
Paraphrasing the first line of Anna Karenina, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves argues that while all successful countries have reformed alike, each unsuccessful country finds its own excuses. In a new report for Stockholm Free World Forum, Ilves offers ...