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Essays Let the right one in. Building relations of trust
Building mutual trust was for years one of the desired aims of international cooperation in the Nordic region; the existence of trust was intended to contribute to the reduction of political tensions and lead to more sustainable and peaceful region. In practice, working with international cooperation in the Nordic region, where Russia was one of the actors until 2022, has never been easy. One of the main obstacles on the way was the deficit of trust.
Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2023:3, 78-82
Published on balticworlds.com on August 23, 2023
Trust can be seen as a mechanism that reduces uncertainty and allows for expectations about other social actors’ future behavior. Hence the existence of trust between different actors in society is “the precondition of the possibility” for cooperation among different actors both within and between communities.
Building mutual trust was for years one of the desired aims of international cooperation in the Nordic region; the existence of trust was intended to contribute to the reduction of political tensions and lead to more sustainable and peaceful region. In practice, working with international cooperation in the Nordic region, where Russia was one of the actors until 2022, has never been easy. One of the main obstacles on the way was the deficit of trust.
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by Ekaterina Kalinina
An Assistant Professor at Institute for Media Studies at Stockholm University, working with the questions the uses of communication and media tools by civil society activists. She is also interested in memory studies and published extensively on post-Soviet nostalgia. She runs the NGO Nordkonst, which aim is to contribute to a stronger international cooperation in the Baltic and the Nordic regions.
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