Finnish-Irish Colloquium on Crisis Management in Tampere on 06.05.2014

Handling Conflicts: Finnish-Irish Colloquium on Crisis ManagementTuesday 6 May 2014, Tampere TAPRI15.00 Welcome wordsPermanent Secretary, Lieutenant General Arto Räty, Finnish Ministry of DefenceSecretary General Maurice Quinn, Irish Department of Defence Professor Tuomo Melasuo, TAPRI15.15 Military Crisis Management in Lebanon: The Importance of CooperationMajor General Kyösti Halonen, Commander of Army Materiel Command15.30 The influence of the Strategic Desired End State on Military Operations in a Crisis Management Environment - Observations from Exercise Viking 2014Colonel Howard Berney, Deputy Force Commander of the Nordic Battle Group15.45 Nordics as Peacemakers: Cooperation or Competition? Senior Research Fellow Marko Lehti, TAPRI16.00 Panel discussion As well as military contribution, comprehensive crisis management also needs civilian crisis management and the participation of civil society - how to create a combination which works?Moderator Professor Tuomo MelasuoPanellists:Major General Kyösti HalonenDefence Policy Director General/ASG Ciaran MurphyColonel Howard BerneyAdviser Olli Nurmi, Ministry of Foreign AffairsMr. Antti Häikiö, National Coordinator of training and civilian crisis management, Ministry of the InteriorMaster student Anna van der Velde, TAPRISenior Research Fellow Marko Lehti, TAPRI16.50 Closing remarks, Mr. Pertti Joenniemi, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, TAPRI17:00 End of seminar