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Should sea ice be considered sovereign territory of the Inuit?

The Greek PhD-student Apostolos Tsiouvalas during his field work in Avanersuaq, Northwest Greenland. There, he interviewed locals to figure out how they had been affected by international law. Photo: Apostolos Tsiouvalas

Ole Ellekrog

International law does not consider Inuit spatial values and forces ‘sovereignty’ onto a people who does not believe in it, a new PhD project argues.