Panel Discussion: ‘Is Greenland for Sale? Independence, Geopolitics and Indigenous Identity’

[Photo by Marc Lanteigne]

On 9 January this year, the University of Iceland / Háskóli Íslands, in partnership with the University’s Institute of International Affairs and the Nordic House, hosted a public panel on the diplomatic aftershocks of the incoming Trump administration’s renewed interest in purchasing Greenland, even going as far as to not rule out the use of force or economic pressure to achieve that goal.

The discussants were Berit Kristoffersen, Associate Professor of Political Science at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Javier Arnaut, Head of Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics, Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland, and Marc Lanteigne, Professor of Political Science at UiT and Chief Editor of Over the Circle. The discussion was moderated by Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, Professor of International Affairs, University of Iceland.

[Link to Vimeo file at https://vimeo.com/1045011312]