Rannsóknasetur um smáríki, Rannsóknasetur um norðurslóðir og Höfði friðarsetur Reykjavíkurborgar og Háskóla Íslands starfa innan vébanda Alþjóðamálastofnunar.
Alþjóðamálastofnun beitir sér fyrir auknu samstarfi milli fræðimanna, atvinnulífs og opinberra aðila á sviði alþjóðamála og gengst fyrir ráðstefnum, umræðufundum og fyrirlestrum um efni sem tengjast starfssviði stofnunarinnar. Stofnunin er vettvangur fyrir fræðileg alþjóðasamskipti og þverfagleg þjónustuverkefni fyrir atvinnulíf, fyrirtæki og stofnanir.
Democracy through policy dialogue
This closed-door event aimed to facilitate a constructive and interactive dialogue between policy-makers and project researchers. Designed to connect RECLAIM's academic findings with practical policy needs, the event fostered open, small-group roundtable discussions.
The Digital Services Act, the EU’s digital regulation master stone, is designed with the intention of tackling content affecting democratic political debate without limiting free speech. But things get more complicated when it comes to so-called “harmful content” or “disinformation”: the line between keeping people safe and stifling free speech …
Authors of the Report: Jacopo Custodi (SNS), Hans-Joerg Trenz (SNS) and Martin Moland (ARENA)
This report presents and analyses the comparative results of an investigation conducted in late 2023 and early 2024 on journalism and its relationship with the issue of dis/misinformation in 7 different countries – Poland, Norway, Croatia, …
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is a motto adopted by the US newspaper The Washington Post in 2017. Does democracy need to be defended in the era of post-truth politics? How, from what or whom? Does the debate on the protection from post-truth phenomena deviate attention from other major problems democracies …
Editors: Saul Newman and Maximilian Conrad
Project: RECLAIM
This open access book analyses the convergence between ‘post-truth’ political culture and the politics of populism. The premise is that there is an intrinsic link between post-truth discourse (referring to mis/disinformation, ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’, conspiracy theories and the general distrust of …
The RECLAIM midterm conference, hosted on 13 March 2024 by IIR Prague, focused on the role of journalism and regulation in addressing post-truth politics and reclaiming liberal democracy. Recording from the conference can be found on the RECLAIM website, reclaim.hi.is.
Do we really live in a "post-truth" era? Can liberal democracy be reclaimed from polarised and epistemically disputed debates? This episode discusses possible responses by EU institutions and member states via civic education, platform regulation and political narratives.
Guest editor: Maximilian Conrad (University of Iceland)
Guests: Karolina Czerska-Shaw (Jagellonian University …
Are there fundamental values that underpin liberal democracy? How are identity narratives weaponised against them? Do these narratives ever translate into real-life policy challenges? What new ways are there of fostering unity in the face of divisive rhetoric?
In this Video Explainer, Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Assistant Professor at the Institute of …