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Vilma Ristikangas is a Master’s student at the Centre for Nordic Studies at Helsinki University. Her entry on nordics.info was supervised by Peter Stadius and Matilda af Hällström.
The Nordic countries collaborate around civil security in order to try to prevent and deal with disasters, accidents, crises and emergencies caused by people, nature, industries or technology. Many Nordic politicians see civil security not only as a question of national importance, but as part of a “borderless” Nordic society.