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Who is the Arctic Future for? A Foresight Roundtable
March 27 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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TNGO’s Arctic Affairs department is excited to host a side event to the High North Dialogue 2025 in Bodø, Norway.
The Arctic is currently in vogue. Whether one asks a boardroom executive, a legislator or a scientist the answer is always the same: the Arctic is a place ripe for the future. But whose future exactly?
As the region’s conditions change at a rapid pace, its sparse and vulnerable demographic makeup is increasingly impacted by outmigration and simultaneously faces unprecedented exposures to a diverse array of interests. Inhabiting a place with centuries-old concerns of resource scarcity, its communities are now witnessing a narrative of resource wealth reach their doorsteps. However, when local leaders in the Arctic are asked about the impacts of changing weather, rising sea levels, or new economic opportunities, their concerns extend beyond risks to property and infrastructure. For many Arctic communities, maintaining their identity while navigating a rapidly evolving landscape is an ongoing challenge.
Migration, when effectively managed, has the potential to address these challenges and become a driver of innovation, cultural exchange, and economic revitalization. With rising demand for human capital, and with more and more setting their sights on the Arctic’s projected economic incentives, the event seeks to explore – through the lens of foresight – modalities through which we ensure that the local knowledge base of millennia-old sustainable practices are not only retained – but leveraged.
The side event brings in a panel of experts and voices from youth councils, government, NGOs, and private sector in an engaging conversation with the public to explore the questions of what strategies can integrate migrants into small Arctic communities, what policies and partnerships are needed to maximize the benefits of migration while ensuring sustainability, and how can we mitigate the risks associated with migration, such as cultural erosion, waning intergenerational knowledge retention and community displacement.