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Welcome to a seminar: Civil society at the forefront – ensuring local ownership in civilian crisis management    

Time: 30.10.2024 at 13:00-16:00 

Venue: Eurooppasali (Malminkatu 16, Helsinki) and online: https://videonet.fi/cmc_20241030_seminar/

Register by October 28th  https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/CBE953ACC3AED4DA 

The EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) Civilian Compact from 2023 highlights inclusivity and civil society partnerships for more effective civilian crisis management to allow the EU to address the changing security landscape together. Local ownership ensures that local concerns are at the centre of peacebuilding. This approach is essential for sustainable results and contributes to the resilience, stability, and security of host countries. It also seeks synergies and enhances regular and inclusive cooperation and dialogue with civil society at all levels.  

The Finnish strategy for comprehensive crisis management emphasises the expertise which national civil society organisations can provide to Finnish participation in international crisis management. In this context The UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 Women, Peace and Security and 2250 Youth, Peace and Security and related agendas are especially highlighted.  Current budgetary cuts on NGO funding, however, limit their possibilities to operate in the scale they used to be involved and carries the threat of losing the cultivated expertise, which has been an asset also in the Finnish comprehensive crisis management.  

The seminar organised by CMC Finland brings together experts to find ways how civil society actors can continue to be active partners in enhancing local ownership in civilian crisis management. The focus of the discussion is especially on cross-cutting themes of 1325 and 2250 agendas.  

The seminar is open to all interested participants. We welcome participants from civil society organisations, research institutes, universities, students, governmental organisations and other actors in the field of comprehensive crisis management. Please register to the event by October 28th via https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/CBE953ACC3AED4DA   

Programme:  

13:00 Welcome  

Juho Särkilä, Director, CMC Finland  

13:05 Keynote Speeches 

Moderator: Jyrki Ruohomäki, Chief Senior Specialist, Head of Research, Development and Situational Awareness , CMC Finland  

Localized knowledge and inclusive expertise:
Community-level engagement in civilian crisis management
Gretchen Baldwin, Researcher, SIPRI

  • Gretchen Baldwin is a Researcher in the SIPRI Peace Operations and Conflict Management Programme, where her work primarily focuses on gender-responsive peace operations and conflict management. Prior to joining SIPRI, Gretchen spent three-and-a-half years at the International Peace Institute (New York, NY) where she led the Women, Peace, and Security team’s peace operations research track. Gretchen is currently based in Sweden and has worked previously in the United States, Cameroon, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

How International NGOs Can Enhance Local Ownership in Ukraine 
Dr. Tetiana Kyselova, Associated Researcher, swisspeace  

  • Tetiana Kyselova is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine; director and founder of the Mediation and Dialogue Research Center; Senior Advisor to the Ukrainian Community of Dialogue Practitioners. Dr. Kyselova holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She has been working with peacebuilding civil society and professional community of mediators in Ukraine since 1990s advising them on the strategies of peacebuilding, self-regulation, training, methodology of mediation and dialogue. Her research interests include conflict transformation, peacebuilding, mediation and dialogue.

Comment  
Otto Kivinen, Deputy Director, Centre for Peace Mediation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs  

Discussion  

14:00 Coffee break 

14:30 Panel discussion: Building peace – How can local and international actors work together today and tomorrow? 
Moderator: Satu Turpeinen, Training Specialist, CMC Finland  

Paula Pättikangas, Chair, Finnish Youth, Peace and Security Network  

Rami Kolehmainen, Civilian crisis management expert  

Elisa Tarnaala, Senior Advisor, CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation 

Tanja Viikki, Senior Peace and Reconciliation Adviser, FELM 

15:55 Closing of the seminar   
Jyrki Ruohomäki, Chief Senior Specialist, Head of Research, Development and Situational Awareness CMC Finland 

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