Johanna Laakso is Professor of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include Finno-Ugric languages, historical linguistics, language contact and gender linguistics. Anneli Sarhimaa is Professor of Northern European and Baltic languages at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany. She is Vice-President of ELEN (European Language Equality Network). Her research interests ... Read moreinclude sociolinguistics, contact linguistics and language policies. Sia Spiliopoulou Akermark is Associate Professor of International Law, Director and Head of Research at the The Aland Islands Peace Institute, Finland. Her research interests include international law, diversity, law and politics, and peace and conflict resolution. Reetta Toivanen is Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor for social and cultural anthropology at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is interested in human rights, minorities, power, identity politics and ethnography. Show Less