ICSN ASIA LINK PROJECT

 

 

*Aims
*Principles

*Strategies

*AsiaLink Activities
*ICSN Coordinators

 

ICSN Aims

  • Academic cooperation
  • Research training (Educational aid)
  • Conflict transformation: development of indigenous conflict resolution and transformation capacity in Indonesian conflict areas.

 

 

ICSN Principles

  • Non-partisan approach.
  • Academic identity of the ICSN while collaboration with practicioners of various sort: media, bureaucracy, donor community, NGOs, civil society groups.

 

 

 

ICSN Strategy

  • Link Indonesian understanding on Indonesian conflicts with Nordic European tradition in peace research.
  • Facilitate collaboration between theorists and empirists, practitioners and theorists, macro-perspective and micro-perspective.

 

 

Asia Link Activities

  • Research collaboration: joint publications, exchange of publications and drafts, cooperation in field research and interviews: 7 articles, conference proceeding per year, two books within the 3 year project period.
  • Policy oriented studies on aid and terrorism for the Danish Formin & for the Fin Formin.
  • Exchange of scholars; visiting professors, researchers and students.
  • 2 Indonesian lecturers conduct doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki.
  • Exchange of teaching resources (including lectures and tutoring of research students): Four series of lectures in Indonesia by Indonesian and European senior scholars per year.
  • Training collaboration: IMS, UNESCO LRN, WK Province administration; CRNS.
  • Organization of two local dialogue seminars and one international conferences per year on questions related to conflict resolution and conflict transformation in Indonesia.

ICSN Coordinators

ICSN consists of researchers and students from universities in Aceh, Jogjakarta, Moluccan Islands, North Sumatra, Papua, Riau, West Java and West Kalimantan and from universities and research institutes in the Nordic countries. The coordinators of operations are:

  • General coordinator: Dr. Timo Kivimäki, Docent (Associate Professor), and Senior Researcher, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
  • Aceh coordinator: Mr. Azhari Idris, Lecturer, University of Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh (IAIN), Banda Aceh.
  • Moluccan Islands coordinator: Dr. Nils Ole Buband, Lecturer, Department of Antropology, University of Århus.
  • North Sumatra coordinator: Drs. Budi Agustono, Lecturer, University of North Sumatra.
  • Papua coordinator: Ms. Murni Situlingga, Lecturer, Division for Conflict Studies, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universitas Cenderawasih.
  • Riau coordinatior: Drs. Syofan Samad, Dean, Faculty of Politics and Social Sciences, Universitas Riau.
  • West Java coordinator: Dr. Pius Suratman Kartasasmita, Rector, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan.
  • West Kalimantan coordination: Prof. Dr. Syarif Ibrahim Alqadrie, Director, Graduate Studies Program, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Tanjungpura.

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Joint European-Indonesian Fieldwork Learning from the Judge of Bali bombings Europen-Indonesian Fieldwork in Kembajat Robert Cribb  and Timo Kivimäkii n Jakarta