The Stockholm House of Culture & City Theatre hosted a conversation between former top diplomat Jan Eliasson and HBC Director Aryo Makko about Eliasson's recently published autobiography Ord och handling: ett liv i diplomatins tjänst [Word and Deed: A Life in the Service of Diplomacy] (Bonniers, 2022) on Wednesday 15 September. The conversation was part of the House of Culture's new format Fackscenen and touched both upon Eliasson's life and career and more general issues of diplomacy, peace and war.