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Stockholm Free World Forum launches Foreign Policy Academy

January 15, 2015
In January the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) will begin its Foreign Policy Academy, an educational program for young opinion builders. The program, which will launch on January 17, will consist of lectures, study visits, scholarships, internships and investigative work throughout 2015. ...

Katarina Tracz New Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum

January 9, 2015
Katarina Tracz has been working at the Stockholm Free World Forum (SFWF) since its start in 2011. She has wide experience of foreign and security policy analysis, focusing particularly on security in the Nordic-Baltic region. She is an active contributor ...

Massive Increase in Russian Actions in the Nordic–Baltics in 2014: An Interactive Timeline

December 19, 2014
  In a joint effort, the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and the McCain Institute for International Leadership have created an interactive timeline to illustrate the increase in Russian security incidents in the Nordic-Baltic region. The Nordic-Baltics find themselves in an ...

Launch of Freetrade.nu

December 11, 2014
Stockholm Free World Forum launches the new website Freetrade.nu Speakers at the event were: Christofer Fjellner, Member of the European parliment (Moderate party) Maria Wetterstrand, former leader of Miljöpartiet  www.Freetrade.nu  ...

Katarina Tracz quoted in Foreign Policy

December 5, 2014
In an article about Swedish feminist foreign policy, Katarina Tracz, deputy director of the Stockholm Free World Forum, was quoted in the magazine Foreign Policy. “This is about sending a signal to the world that the new government wants to bring ...

Baladevan Rangaraju visits Stockholm Free World Forum

November 24, 2014
Baladevan Rangaraju is the Founder Director of India Institute. He is the author (with Tooley, James & Dixon, Pauline) of ”The Private School Revolution in Bihar: Findings from a survey in Patna Urban, India’s first landscape study of school market in a ...

Katarina Tracz in Foreign Policy: The Swedish Navy is hunting a Russian submarine and doesn´t have the tools for it

October 21, 2014
Katarina Tracz, deputy director at the Stockholm Free World Forum, writes in Foreign Policy about the Swedish Navys hunt for the submarine and Russia’s activity in the area. ”The Swedish Navy is desperately trying to find a Russian submarine prowling off the coast ...

The Russian information war in Lithuania

August 21, 2014
The report “The Russian Information War in Lithuania” summarizes developments in Lithuania while illustrating how Russia is using soft power to pursue its interests. In the current situation, important points of attack are focused around the discrediting of Lithuania’s international ...

New Initiative: Swedish-Finnish Commission Preparing for NATO Membership

June 14, 2014
Mats Johansson, chairman of the Stockholm Free World Forum, and Ambassador Pauli Järvenpää of the ICDS in Tallinn have made a common effort to launch a new initiative; a joint Swedish-Finnish commission preparing for NATO membership. On June 4th, their article ...

Conference: Security in Northern and Eastern Europe 2014

April 28, 2014
On April 28th, The Stockholm fre World Forum (Frivärld) hosted the conference ”Security in Northern and Eastern Europe 2014″ in Stockholm. The aim of the conference was to discuss the security situation in Northern and Eastern Europe. The sessions focused ...