To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Pär Stenbäck

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pär Stenbäck
Born12 August 1941 Edit this on Wikidata
Porvoo Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician Edit this on Wikidata
Political partySwedish People's Party of Finland Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

Pär Stenbäck (born 12 August 1941 in Porvoo) is a Finnish politician and debater.[1][2][3] Stenbäck was elected to the Finnish parliament at the age of 28 and functioned as the party chairman for the Swedish People's Party 1977–1985. He was Minister of Education and then Foreign Minister in two governments, 1979–1983. This was followed by significant roles within the International Red Cross, International Youth Foundation, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and several other organisations.[1]

Career

Stenbäck studied political science at Helsinki University.[1] He worked as a journalist for YLE from 1964 to 1967.[3]

Stenbäck has been a member of the city council of Espoo, and also the Finnish parliament (1970–1985).[1][3] He was the Minister of Education (1979 to 1982), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1982 to 1983) and Party Leader of the Swedish People's Party (1977 to 1985).[1] He received an Honorary Minister title in 1999.[1]

He has also been the general secretary for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva from 1988 to 1992.[3] He received the prestigious Henry Dunant Medal of the International Red Cross in 2009.[1]

Between 1992 and 1997 he functioned as the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen.[3] In 1991, he took part in the founding of the International Youth Foundation (IYF), now situated in Baltimore, as a director 1991–1996, thereafter as VP for Europe until 2005.[4][5] In 1995, he became a founding board member of the International Crisis Group.[5] In 2001, together with ambassador Karl-Erik Norrman [sv], he founded the European Cultural Parliament, where he is the Chairman of the Senate.[6] In the same year, he founded the Finnish Children and Youth Foundation and acted as its board chair until 2012.[7] In June 2017, he founded the foreign policy association Nya Utrikespolitiska Samfundet.[1][8]

Publications

Stenbäck has published two books depicting his career in politics and in the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement (2007 and 2009). He is a regular columnist in the daily Hufvudstadsbladet (Helsinki).

  • 2021, All världens vägar, Reflektioner på distans[9] ISBN 9789527224434
  • 2018, Demokrati under hot?[10] ISBN 9789525864861
  • 2009, Kriser och katastrofer: politik och humanitärt arbete[11] ISBN 9789515018908
  • 2007, När världen öppnade sig: en sextiotalskrönika[12] ISBN 9789515016935

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Pär Stenbäck". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  2. ^ "Pär Stenbäck". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  3. ^ a b c d e "80-vuotias "Näkymät ovat taas mitä synkimmät", sanoo Pär Stenbäck, joka ehti nähdä valon hetken maailmanpolitiikassa". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 9 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  4. ^ "Former Board Members". International Youth Foundation. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  5. ^ a b "Pär Stenbäck, 70 år: Lyssnar bortom twittret". Hbl.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  6. ^ "Senators, European Cultural Parliament – ECP". Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  7. ^ "History of the Children and Youth Foundation". Lasten ja nuorten säätiö. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  8. ^ "Om NUPS, Nya Utrikespolitiska Samfundet". NUPS (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  9. ^ Stenbäck, Pär. All världens vägar. ISBN 978-952-7224-43-4. OCLC 1252810731 – via Open WorldCat.
  10. ^ Stenbäck, Pär. Demokrati under hot?. ISBN 978-952-5864-86-1. OCLC 1096245624 – via Open WorldCat.
  11. ^ Stenbäck, Pär. Kriser och katastrofer: politik och humanitärt arbete. Helsinki: Schildts. ISBN 978-951-50-1890-8. OCLC 631140680 – via Open WorldCat.
  12. ^ Stenbäck, Pär. När världen öppnade sig: en sextiotalskrönika. Helsinki: Schildt. ISBN 978-951-50-1693-5. OCLC 500650430 – via Open WorldCat.

External links

This page was last edited on 27 September 2023, at 06:36
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy