present Director at the Åland Islands Peace Institute (Ålands fredsinstitut) Associate Professor of International Law

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1 Curriculum Vitae Athanasia (Sia) Spiliopoulou Åkermark Work experience present Director at the Åland Islands Peace Institute (Ålands fredsinstitut) Associate Professor of International Law Main activities and responsibilities: Overall responsibility and leadership, head of research, coordination. Editor of the Report Series of the Åland Islands Peace Institute ( Address: The Åland Islands Peace Institute, PB 85, AX Mariehamn, Åland, Finland (with several periods on leave for other tasks, see below) First Doctoral candidate, later Researcher, Lecturer (1997), Associate professor (2001) Teaching, research Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, PB 512, S Uppsala, Sweden Guest researcher/fellow Center for the Advanced Study of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford, USA 75 Alta Road, Stanford, California, USA August 1998 May 1999 Guest researcher at the Centre de droit international, Université Paris X, Nanterre (CEDIN) doing postdoctoral work concerning treaty law and international organisations (with a grant from STINT) August-December 1997 Acting Director/Guest Professor (Armfeldt professor) Overall planning, coordination, project leadership, teaching and tutoring Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Gezeliusgatan 2, FI Åbo/Turku, Finland Legal officer / Project manager In charge of international law issues and projects co. constitutional reforms and human rights in East Africa (mainly Kenya and Uganda) Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights, Stockholm. Sweden October December 1994 Project officer (Analysis and data gathering) on refugee flows in the Middle East at Amnesty International, International secretariat, London, UK

2 In addition: Several consultancies for national and international NGOs and intergovernmental organisations and national authorities. Education and training Dates Jur. dr. (Ph.d. in international law) Research, teaching, project leadership in human rights and international law Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden Doctoral studies and research LL.M. in international law Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden Diploma in Graduate Legal Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden Law degree Faculty of Law, University of Athens (Kapodistriakon), Greece Languages Mother tongue(s): Swedish & Greek Other language(s) English (fluent); 4. French (good); Spanish & German (rudimentary) Organisational skills and competences Extensive experience in project leadership and employer position. Has headed several multinational research projects since 1997, at national, Nordic and European levels. Computer skills and competences Word Package, incl. Excel; Epson Scan Other appointments (selected other appointments and positions) - Member of the Advisory Board of the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS, ) - Member of the Scientific Board of the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI, 2010-) and General Editor of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues (EYMI). - Member of the Scientific Board of the Minorities Institute at the European Academy of Bolzano

3 / Bosen (EURAC ) - Member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi (2006 -) - Member of the Contact Group between The Åland Government and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2008 -) - Elected as Swedish representative and Vice-president of the Advisory Committee of Experts on The Framework Convention on National Minorities of the Council of Europe (2001- May 2006) and for Member of the Board of Directors of the Swedish Helsinki Committee (2005-mid-2008) - Head of multinational research project with 19 researchers from 10 countries, re. Minorities around the Baltic Sea region ( ) - Member of the Board of Directors of the Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights ( ). - Participation in the reference group of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs for the preparation of the policy document "Human Rights in Swedish Foreign Policy" (1997/98). - Elected president of the Council of doctoral candidates, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden in 1995/96. - Member of the Research Council of the Åland Islands Peace Institute ( ). - Country co-ordinator with responsibility for Western Europe and in particular Greece and Cyprus, Swedish section of Amnesty International ( ). - Member of the Board of Directors of the Swedish Amnesty Fund in 1997/98. - Member of the Board of Directors of the Swedish section of Minority Rights Group (MRG) Active Member of the European Law Students' Association (EL A ) and of the International Law Group of the Swedish Red Cross ( ). Selected Publications (selected publications after the completion of doctoral thesis in 1997) Books The Åland Example and Its Components Relevance for International Conflict Resolution (edited volume, Mariehamn, The Åland Islands Peace Institute, 2011, 210 pp). Authored in this volume 'Introduction' pp. 8-26, 'Conclusions', pp and 'Chapter 2: Åland's Demilitarisation and Neutralisation: Continuity and Change', pp Hembygdsrätten (editor) [re. The Right of Domicile in the Åland Islands] The Åland Islands Peace Institute, Finland, 2007 (in English 2009) En bok i folkrätt (Introduction to International law, in Swedish), together with P. Sevastik, K. Nyman Metcalf & Olle Mårsäter, (2009), Norstedts juridik, Stockholm Outpost, Land in Between, Bridge (ed.), Art and Science Exhibition Volume published by the Åland Islands Peace Institute in cooperation with the Åland Museum and Art Museum and the Government of Åland, Mariehamn, (2009, in English, Swedish and Finnish)

4 International Obligations and National Debates: Minorities around the Baltic Sea (editor in chief, The Åland Islands Peace Institute, Finland, 2006). Humanitär rätt och mänskliga rättigheter: samspel under utveckling, (on the relation between Humanitarian Law and Human Rights) Skriftserie från Totalförsvarets folkrättsråd, Regeringskansliet (Försvarsdepartementet/Swedish Ministry of Defence), 2002 Mänskliga rättigheter aktuella forskningsfrågor, (Human Rights Contemporary research questions) with Gunner, Iustus förlag, Uppsala, 2001 Documents in Public International Law, ed. with Maja Kirilova Eriksson and Kristoffer Nordman, Norstedts juridik, Stockholm, 2000 (2nd edition 2008) Human Rights of Minority Women a manual of international law. The Åland Islands Peace Institute, Finland, 2000 Human Rights Education: Achievements and Challenges, Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark (ed.), Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, in collaboration with The Finnish National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO, 1998 Justifications of Minority Protection in International Law, (based on doctoral thesis), Iustus Publishers & Kluwer International, Uppsala & Dordrecht, 1997 Articles, chapters and book reviews Minority Education Torn in Contradictions? forthcoming in European Yearbook of Minority Issues Vol. 9 (covering the year 2010) where I also edit a special focus on minority education (forthcoming in 2012). The images of children in education A critical reading of D.H. and others v. The Czech Republic and its aftermath (forthcoming at Cambridge University Press in a volume entitled Mainstreaming Diversity by Eva Brems) Understanding the Multiple Justifications of Minority Protection, in Kari Palonen & Anthoula Malkopoulou (eds), Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change, Suomen Ateenan- Instituutin säätiö (Foundation of the Finnish Institute in Athens), 2011, Ålands demilitarisering och neutralisering: juridisk beständighet och omgivningens föränderlighet in the electronic publication Ålands demilitarisering och neutralisering mot bakgrund av de nya europeiska utmaningarna, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2010, Available at: Shifts in the multiple justifications of minority protection in European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Vol. 7 (2007/200, published in 2010), 5-18 Minority education in Sweden: problems and trends in Europa Ethnica, Vol. 1-2, 2009, 23-30

5 L exemple des Îles Åland ou les vicissitudes d un concept en flux, (What makes the Åland example still relevant?) in M. Chillaud (ed.), La question des Îles Åland, aujourd hui et demain, L Harmattan (Paris, 2009), Human Rights, Globalisation, Trade and Development, in, Catarina Krause & Martin Scheinin (eds), International Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook, Åbo/Turku, Akademi University Institute for Human Rights, 2009, (to be updated in 2012) The Åland Islands Question in the League of Nations: The Ideal Minority Case?, in Redescriptions Yearbook of Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, Vol. 13 (2009), Education and Human Rights: Kind Intentions and Brutal Realities, in Claudia Mahler et als. (eds), The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education and the Inclusion of National Minorities, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang GmbH, 2009, Constitutions, Autonomies and the EU (ed.), Report from the Åland Islands Peace Institute, No Available at: The added value of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, in Annelies Verstichel et als. (eds.), The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: A Useful Pan-European Instrument?, Antwerp Oxford Portland, Intersentia, 2008, Att vilja göra rätt men ändå göra fel: om domstolsgranskningen av romsk utbildning i Tjeckien (re. Roma education in the Czech republic), in Ulla Börestam et al. (eds.), Revitalisera mera!, Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 50, 2008, pp Ålands demilitarisering och neutralisering gammal skåpmat eller levande folkrätt? i Harry Jansson (red.), i Harry Jansson (red.), Vitbok för utveckling av Ålands självbestämmanderätt (2007), pp Multiculturalism in crisis? I Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez & Robert Dunbar (red.), Human Rights and Diversity: New Challenges for Plural Societies, University of Deusto, Bilbao, 2007, (published in Euskadi in 2008) Treaties and the Limits of Flexibility (with Olle Mårsäter) in Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 74, 2005, Kritik och förnyelse: hur långt når vi med de mänskliga rättigheternas vokabulär? essay on David Kennedy s, The Dark Sides of Virtue reassessing international humanitarianism(2004), in Mennesker og rettigheter, 2005, Vol. 23, Nr: 4:2005, Federalism and Minorities, in Indian Journal of Federalism, Vol. 1/2005, Storms, Foxes and Nebulous Legal Arguments: Twelve Years of Force Against Iraq, , International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2005,

6 The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples, in Nazila Ghanea & Alexandra Xanthaki (eds.), Minorities, Peoples and Self-Determination, Brill Publ. 2005, Soft Law and International Financial Institutions Issues of Hard and Soft Law from a Lawyer s Perspective, in Ulrika Mörth (ed), Soft Law in Governance and Regulation An Interdisciplinary Analysis, Edward Elgar Publ., 2004, Book essay on Martti Koskeniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations - The Rise and Fall of International Law (CUP, 2002) in Redescriptions: Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History, Vol 8, 2004, The distinctiveness of international legal norms: issues of legalization, legality and legitimacy, in Krister Segerberg and Rysiek Sliwinski (eds), Logic Law Morality, Thirteen essays in practical philosophy in honour of Lennart Åquist, Uppsala, 2003, Minority rights in education: International rules and trends, in Huss, Leena, Camilleri Grima, Antoinette & King, Kendall (eds.), Transcending Monolingualism Linguistic Revitalisation in Education, Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, 2003, Bookreview of Mielle Bulterman s book Human Rights in the Treaty Relations of the European Community Real Virtues or Virtual Reality?in Mennesker & Rettigheter (Nordic Journal of Human Rights), No. 1:2003 (vol. 21), The Non-Autonomous Minority Groups in the Nordic Countries (together with Lauri Hannikainen), in Archer, Clive and Joenniemi, Pertti (eds.), The Nordic Peace, 2003, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, The Limits of Pluralism Recent Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights with Regard to Minorities: Does the Prohibition of Discrimination Add Anything?, in Journal On Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), Issue 3/2002 (available electronically at Reservation issues in the mixed agreements of the European Community, in Finnish Yearbook of International Law, Vol X (1999), published in 2002, Otillåtna reservationer i ljuset av kvinnodiskrimineringskonventionen, (Impermissible reservations and the CEDAW, with Olle Mårsäter), in Gunner, Göran & Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Sia (red.) Mänskliga rättigheter aktuella forskningsfrågor, Uppsala, Iustus förlag, 2001, Autonomi och minoritetsskydd två olika begrepp, (Autonomy and minority protection: two different concepts) in Jansson, Harry and Salminen, Johannes, Den andra Ålandsfrågan: Autonomi eller självständighet, Mariehamn, 2001, Steps Towards a Minority Policy in Sweden, in Trifunovska, Snezana, Minority Rights in Europe European Minorities and Languages, T.M.C. Asser, The Hague, 2001,

7 International Development Finance Institutions: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause and Allan Rosas (eds.) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights A Textbook, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Second edition, 2001, Otillåtna reservationer: en diskussion utifrån Europarådets nyantagna rekommendation, i SvJT, 2001, (Impermissible reservations and the new recommendation of the Council of Europe, with Olle Mårsäter) Reservation Clauses in Treaties Concluded within the Council of Europe, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 48, 1999, Reservations: Breaking New Ground in the Council of Europe, European Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 5, 1999, Race Equality: Sweden, with Christina Johnsson & Lotta Lerwall, Revue européenne de droit public, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1999, The Procedural Position of Autonomous Regions before International Judicial and Quasi- Judicial Organs, in Markku Suksi (ed.), Autonomy: Applications and Implications, The Hague/London/Boston, Kluwer Law International, 1998, Mänskliga rättigheter och Sverige, 1998, 10 sidor, som Bilaga No. 2 in "Mänskliga rättigheter - mångas skyldigheter: Högskoleutbildning i demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter" Ds 1998:46 (Utbildningsdepartementet). (re. Human Rights in Sweden) Ursprungsfolken, folkrätten och biståndet, Internationella studier, No. 2, 1998, The Åland Islands in International Law and Cooperation: The Legal Capacity of an Autonomous Region, in Lauri Hannikainen & Frank Horn (eds), Autonomy and Demilitarisation in International Law: The Åland Islands in a Changing Europe, The Hague/London/Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997, Studies for international organisations Council of Europe, Commentary on Education under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, ACFC/25DOC(2006)002, Strasbourg 2 March, Available at: pdf Svenska avdelningen av Internationella Juristkommissionen (Swedish Section of the International Commission of Jurists), Samernas rätt till deltagande och samråd fysisk planering och infrastruktur (Re. Sami participation and consultation in planning decisions, with Miriam Talah), April 2007, 87 pp., Available at:

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