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Information Campaign ahead of the Sochi Olympics

January 15, 2014
In January 2014, ahead of the Olympic winter games in Sotchi, The Stockholm Free World Forum carried out an information campaign directed to athletes and journalists competing in and reporting from Sotchi. The aim of the campaign was to spread ...

Study Trip to Vilnius and Riga

November 11, 2013
Sweden and the Baltic countries are situated in the same geographical area in the north of Europe. However, the political perspectives on defence related issues differ between the countries. In November 2013, The Stockholm Free World Forum invited a group ...

Twenty years after Clash of Civilizations: Are we living in Huntington’s world order?

October 29, 2013
In the summer of 1993, Foreign Affairs published  “Clash of Civilizations?” by Samuel P. Huntington. Few thinkers have provoked such criticism as Huntington did twenty years ago. Nevertheless, the critics did not succeed in dismissing his article as irrelevant. In ...

Lectures November 19th, 20th and 21st: What role does low-cost public schools play in developing countries?

October 20, 2013
In Lahore, Pakistan, half of the families living in extreme poverty buy schooling from private actors even though they have access to free, public schools. In India, the picture looks the same. and in large parts of Africa, the private ...

The Free World Forum publishes on Stratfor

July 12, 2013
The American foreign policy think tank Stratfor publishes an article from The Free World Forum, written by Major General Karlis Nerenieks. The Major General discuss how access to Swedish territory is essential for any NATO operation in the Baltic Sea ...

Mats Johansson and William Horsley: Europe’s Wounded Press Freedom

July 25, 2012
Media freedom in Europe is deteriorating. In eg. Russia, violence against journalists is flourishing and in the past three years, seven russian journalists have been murdered. But the situation is not only critical in eastern countries like Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine ...

Azerbaijan – a Potemkin Backdrop?

May 12, 2012
On May 10th, Stockholm Free World Forum and the Swedish International Liberal Centre organized a seminar on political situation in Azerbaijan. The panel consisted of Svante Cornell, Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, and ...

Justice for Sergei Magnitsky

March 9, 2012
  In the end of February, William Browder visited Stockholm Free World Forum to inform about the abuses, and eventually the killing, of Sergei Magnitsky committed by the Russian government. In connection to the visit, Stockholm Free World Forum released ...

Book launch: Ten Years With Putin

December 16, 2011
On November 16th, The Free World Forum released a Swedish translation of Boris Nemtsov’s and Vladimir Milov’s report Ten Years with Putin. The report is a critical study of Putin and Putinism, focusing on the more than ten years that ...

Swedish Military Solidarity Around the Baltic Sea: Three Scenarios

October 19, 2011
How should any Swedish military intervention be presented in the case of different types of future crises in the Baltic region? The question is raised by Karlis Neretnieks in his chapter in the book Till bröders hjälp (Help between brothers), ...