On August 22nd, 2025, Aftonbladet (of the biggest newspapers in Sweden) published an interesting article by the famous chronicler and author Åsa Linderborg on the militarization of and by Sweden, as well as on, what she argues, the silence of people and the non-existing peace movement in Sweden. The article published in Aftonbladet is available hear:
A reply that agreed on the first part of the article, but countered the second part of the article, was published in the magazine Syre on September 5th. The reply was signed by more than eighty representatives for different parts of the Swedish peace, environmental and feminist movement.
All representatives agreed with Åsa Linderborg on the critique of the ongoing militarization of and by Sweden, but they did not agreed on the second statement, i.e. that the Sweden doesn´t have a peace movement. On the contrary, the peace movement is growing due to the mobilization of people and movements, and it gathers around a number of concerns.
One of the signatories of the reply, was the founder and chair of the board of Another Development Foundation, Ingvar Rönnbäck.
The reply is available hear:
https://tidningensyre.se/2025/05-september-2025/fredsrorelsen-lever-asa-linderborg/
Another Development Foundation is a part of the Swedish peace movement and collaborate with a number of international, Swedish and local peace organizations and movements who are working peace an disarmament in relation to other social challenges, for example autocratization, racism, sexism, environmental destruction.