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Every semester ISDP runs an internship program open to university students and recent graduates. The internship will last between 4-6 months at the main office in Stockholm and the desired start date is from January or February. Please note that ISDP’s internships are full time (40 hours per week) and unpaid. The Institute is currently looking for […]

The full recording of ISDP’s recent webinar on “Human Security and the Humanitarian Situation in North Korea” with speakers Kee B. Park, Åsa Sandberg, Bernhard Seliger, Sangsoo Lee, and Lars Vargö as the moderator, is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel.

October 10, 2020: ISDP’s Distinguished Military Fellow, Mats Engman, spoke to TV4 Nyheterna (Swedish) about North Korea’s military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the country’s ruling party. Watch the clip here.

The full recording of the Stockholm China Center’s recent virtual lecture on “Sweden and China: 400 Years of Relations in Retrospect” with Dr. Ingemar Ottosson is now available on our Youtube channel.

The full recording of ISDP’s recent webinar on “Human Security: Its Importance, Challenges, and the case of Japan” with Marie Højlund Roesgaard, Gerd Johnsson Latham, Pål Jonson, Lars Vargö, and Torbjörn Lodén, is now available on our Youtube channel.

September 25, 2020: ISDP’s Executive Director, Dr. Niklas Swanström, spoke to Sveriges Radio Ekot (Swedish) about Chairman Kim Jong-un’s apology to President Moon Jae-in for the killing of a South Korean official. “Det finns inga kontakter, Nordkorea har vägrat att prata med Sydkorea. Att Kim Jong-un nu skickar ett brev till President Moon är en […]

The full recording of ISDP’s recent webinar with Taiwanese Representative Vincent Chin-Hsiang Yao and ISDP’s Torbjörn Lodén, “Developments in U.S.-Taiwan Relations”, is now available on our Youtube channel.

August 27, 2020: Dr. Sangsoo Lee made a presentation on Sweden’s Covid-19 measures at a seminar on the Nordic countries’ responses to Covid-19, organized by the Nordic-Benelux Center at Korea University.

September 7, 2020: ISDP’s Executive Director, Dr. Niklas Swanström, participated as a speaker at the ‘Korea Global Forum for Peace’ on the topic of a “paradigm shift for peace and dispute resolution on the Korean Peninsula”. The full recording is available on YouTube.

ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Riccardo Villa as the new Project Coordinator at the Stockholm Korea Center. He holds a Master of Arts in Global Peace, Security and Strategic Studies from Vesalius College in Brussels, Belgium, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Languages, Cultures and Societies, specializing in the Indian […]