Website: Crisis Management Initiative (CMI)

Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) is an independent, non-profit organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable security. CMI works to strengthen the capacity of the international community in comprehensive crisis management and conflict resolution. CMI's work builds on wide stakeholder networks. It combines analysis, action and advocacy.

CMI was founded in 2000 by its Chairman President Martti Ahtisaari. The headquarters of the organisation are in Helsinki, Finland.

Crisis Management Initiative

-Promotes sustainable security in a pioneering way
-Brings together actors to seek solutions to security challenges
-Engages in capacity building among the international community in conflict prevention, resolution and transformation
-Advocates solutions for security
-Uses comprehensive approaches that bind together security and development, good governance, justice and reconciliation

CMI's activities are divided into two programmes - Crisis Management Programme and Conflict Resolution Programme - , and the Martti Ahtisaari Rapid Reaction Facility.

• Primary Source

Wikipedia: Crisis Management Initiative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_Management_Initiative

Relief Web: Themes: Conflict management http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/doc207?OpenForm&query=3&cat=Conflict%20Management

European Commission: DG External Relations: European Union @ United Nations: Joint Declaration on UN-EU Co-operation in Crisis Management, 2003 http://www.europa-eu-un.org/articles/en/article_2768_en.htm

Council of the European Union: Policies: Security and Defence: Civilian crisis management http://consilium.europa.eu/cms3_fo/showPage.asp?id=1346&lang=EN&mode=g

Wikipedia: Track II diplomacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_II_diplomacy

---