INURA 2025 Conference
- Tampere, Finland
- Conference: 23-25 June 2025, in Tampere
- Retreat: 26-29 June 2025, in Pori (INURA members only)
- Preliminary program
- Website: INURA 2025 – In War We Fight In Peace We Build
More information, including fees and registration, will be published later on the conference website.
The INURA 2025 conference is exploring how war and the threat of war shape the relationship between the state and civil society, focusing on the 4th sector—the intersection of civil society, business, and public organisations—where innovative grassroots initiatives and social enterprises drive societal change. Under the theme “In war we fight – in peace we build”, the conference will examine opportunities for innovation and the challenges of sustaining civil society in conflict settings.
Using Finland and Ukraine as case studies, the key topics of the conference include Ukraine’s response to war, highlighting how civil society adapts and collaborates during conflict, and Finland’s geopolitical challenges as a country sharing a long border with Russia. The conference will also address colonial legacies and examine subtler forms of domination in Nordic welfare states, challenging the idealized narratives of these societies.
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INURA is a network of people involved in action and research in localities and cities. The network consists of activists and researchers from community and environmental groups, universities, and local administrations, who wish to share experiences and to participate in common research. INURA is a network with a self-organizing, non-hierarchical, decentralized structure. INURA was founded in 1991 in Salecina, Switzerland.
Contact: tampere2025@inura.org