Calx Proclivia

Services

Calx Proclivia (and its predecessor, CTS-Conflict Transformation Service) is a company with considerable experience in advising governments, governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and conflicting parties in

  1. Conflict prevention,
  2. Dispute resolution and mediation,
  3. Conflict sensitive aid programming
  4. Political country risks, and
  5. Conflict early warning.

Foundation of Competence

The expertise of the company is based on a combination of

  1. Academic research and
  2. Practical experience in working together with
    1. Several European governments (for example, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK), with
    2. THe UN and EU institutions (UNIDIR, UNU, European Commission and EU Council) as well as with
    3. Governments of  Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as
    4. A number of non-governmental organizations such as Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, CMI-Crisis Management Initiative.

The foundation of company’s competence is in its

  1. Global network of top academics and consultants, and its
  2. In-house competence (Chairman of the Company, Prof. Timo Kivimäki, who is also its Senior Consultant).

Experience

The company’s chairman, who takes a key responsibility of company’s projects:

  1. Has been full professor of the University of Helsinki and the University of Copenhagen, director of the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Helsinki and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
  2. Is the author or editor of more than 40 books, and 150 scientific articles.
  3. Is the Chairman of ASEM Education Hub for Peace and Conflict Studies.
  4. Is a member of the editorial board of world’s leading peace research journal (The Journal of Peace Research).
  5. Is a frequent adviser to the Nobel laurite, President Martti Ahtisaari.
  6. Is the initiator of the peace process in West Kalimantan, which was later taken over by the Vice-President of Indonesia.
  7. Has recently delivered a Management strategy to the Defense Minister of Thailand regarding to the separatist rebellion in the Southern-most provinces of the country.
  8. Led the drafting of the global conflict risk mapping for the Nokia Corporation in 2004-5.
  9. Drafted Finland’s policy paper for conflict prevention in development cooperation in 2001.
  10. Trained diplomats, peace negotiation panels, soldiers, policemen, ethnic leaders, combatants, and public servants in conflict prevention at the
    1. Estonian Diplomatic School (East European diplomats, Moldovan negotiators of Transnistria conflict).
    2. Geneva Institute of Security Policies.
    3. Indonesian Foreign Ministry.
    4. National Defense Colleges of Finland and Denmark.
    5. National Police College of Finland.
    6. Provincial and district police head quarters of Kalimantan and Aceh, Indonesia.
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    7. Islamic and Christian educational institutions, meetings of ethnic leaders and ethno-nationalist and religious militias in Poso, Ambon, West Kalimantan, Riau, Java, Aceh and Papua (Indonesia) and Pattani, Yala, Songkla and Narathiwa (Thailand), Mindanao, (Philippines), and Rangoon and Sittwe (Burma/Myanmar).
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Approach

The networks that use Calx Proclivia are academic, and they represent top scholarly quality. Yet, people of the networks are policy oriented and have extensive experience of consultancy and advisory work. Instead of just investigating facts, they offer their scientific methods of finding the facts and analyzing them, as well as their scholarly perspectives for the practical purposes defined by the commissioning agency. However, instead of offering mere perspectives, let alone academic jargon, the experts of the networks are used to meticulous investigation of the relevant facts, too. Calx Proclivia approach is, therefore, to mobilize scholarly methods and perspectives for the assignment, rather than offering the assignment for academic theory. This approach is symbolized in the logo of Calx Proclivia, in which knowledge is brought from different directions, and then it is analyzed into a form that is condensed and valuable as a diamond, for the commissioning agency.

The Networks

The Main networks that the Chairman of the Board of Calx Proclivia has established and leads are:

Conflict Transformation Group
Indonesian Conflict Studies Network
Thematic Network on Peace and Conflict Studies (part of the ASEM Education Hub)

Opportunities for Conflict Professionals

The Calx Proclivia continues to expand its networks. With a growing need to take the conflict aspect into account in the planning, implementation and evaluation of development cooperation, there is a growing need for professionals in aspects of conflict. This is why the Calx Procliva is systematically collecting a roster of specialists in several conflict-related issue areas, and invites conflict specialists who would be interested in collaborating with us to submit their CVs and lists of publications and sample publications/reports.

How to Contact Us?

Tel. +45 2972 5435
Email: info@calxproclivia.net
Homepage www.calxproclivia.net

 

 

Updated:2012

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