Report now available: 2025 Canada-Iceland Seminar on Geopolitics and Security in the Arctic and North Atlantic

In Reykjavík this past June the third annual Canada-Iceland Seminar brought together diplomats, academics, and practitioners to discuss shared security concerns in the Arctic and North Atlantic. Themes included geopolitics, search and rescue and maritime law enforcement, cybersecurity and hybrid warfare, North American defense, and climate change and the environment.

In an era of heightened geopolitical tensions and greater international focus on the Arctic, information sharing and discussion between experts from allied countries like Canada and Iceland at events such as this is crucial. For a copy of the report summarizing discussions held under Chatham House rules, please see Canada - Iceland report 2025-2026.

Special thanks to the report's authors Cooper Roy, Sasha Tiaglei, and Liou Van Tichelen from the University of Manitoba. The seminar was jointly organized by the University of Manitoba's Center for Defense and Security Studies (CDSS) and Department of Icelandic Language and Literature, the Embassy of Canada to Iceland, the Embassy of Iceland to Canada, the North American and Arctic Defense and Security Network (NAADSN), the Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North at Trent University, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland, and the University of Iceland's Institute of International Affairs.

Other Canada and Iceland seminars and meetings in this series:

2024 Seminar on Maritime Defence and Security in the North - NAADSN Report

2023 Seminar on The Changing Arctic: Canadian and Icelandic Perspectives - NAADSN Report

2021 Presentation on Security and Defence in the Arctic with James Ferguson, Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba in Canada - Recording