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Linda Åkerström
Linda Åkerström
Head of Policy and Advocacy, Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (www.svenskafreds.se)
twitter: @lakerstrom
email: linda.akerstrom [at] svenskafreds [dot] se
phone: +46(0)70-763 48 51 

Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) | Europe

Linda Åkerström is the Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (Svenska Freds/SPAS), where she leads work on disarmament and against the arms trade, providing research, analysis and advocacy. SPAS is Sweden's largest peace organisation, founded in 1883. Åkerström has published several books on Swedish arms trade and security policy issues and has more than a decade of experience working in Sweden, with efforts directed as well as toward the EU and UN. 

Ms. Åkerström has an MA in Political Science from Södertörn University.


Recent Publications:

  • "14 empty airframes: public–private relations in the Swedish arms industry," Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2020.
  • ​"14 empty airframes and what they say about Swedish state-Saab relations," blog post, World Peace Foundation - Reinventing Peace," June 24, 2019
  • "A Meat Show for Vegetarians, report from the IDEX arms fair in Abu Dhabi. Pax magazine, no 1: 2019. 
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