The Crisis Management Centre Finland (CMC Finland) and the Finnish Defence Forces International Centre (FINCENT) have launched an initiative to Establish the Finnish Centre of Expertise in Comprehensive Crisis Management. Its core tasks will be the development of civil-military relations and coordination in crisis management both for national crisis management capacity building and international crisis management missions.

The Finnish Centre of Expertise will be based on the shared campus-principle with the responsibility shared between FINCENT and CMC Finland, both of which will continue functioning in their capacity as independent governmental institutions. The goal is to create clear framework for the co-operation that already exists between these two institutions.

The Finnish Centre of Expertise in Comprehensive Crisis Management endeavours to develop common and shared training in crisis management as well as to promote overall understanding of comprehensive crisis management. Its tasks also include research, publishing and seminar activities. The Integrated Crisis Management training that was organised in autumn 2008 served as the pilot training of the Finnish Centre of Expertise in Comprehensive Crisis Management.

For more information please contact:

• LtCol Esa Vanonen (FINCENT)
•  + 358 299 540 100 
•  www.fincent.fi 
• Dr Ari Kerkkänen (CMC Finland)
•  +358 50 430 4483
•   www.cmcfinland.fi 

CMC Finland Crisis Management Centre  

The Crisis Management Centre Finland is a governmental institution and a centre of expertise in civilian crisis management. The main tasks of CMC Finland are to train experts for international civilian crisis management and peacebuilding missions as well as conduct research focusing on civilian crisis management. Recruitment for international missions will be transferred from the Ministry of the Interior to CMC Finland during the year of 2008.

The responsibility of civilian crisis management is shared between two ministries in Finland: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is responsible for political coordination of civilian crisis management and decides in which missions Finnish experts may take part while the Ministry of the Interior is responsible for issues concerning national preparedness on a strategic level under which CMC Finland operates carrying out operational tasks of national preparedness.

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