Mission Statement Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) is an independent, non-profit organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable security. CMI works to strengthen the capacity of the international community in comprehensive crisis management and conflict resolution. CMI's work builds on wide stakeholder networks. It combines analysis, action and advocacy. Background CMI was founded in 2000 by its Chairman President Martti Ahtisaari. The headquarters of the organisation are in Helsinki, Finland. Our role Crisis Management Initiative * Promotes sustainable security in a pioneering way * Brings together actors to seek solutions to security challenges * Engages in capacity building among the international community in conflict prevention, resolution and transformation * Advocates solutions for security * Uses comprehensive approaches that bind together security and development, good governance, justice and reconciliation CMI's activities are divided into two programmes - Crisis Management Programme and Conflict Resolution Programme - , and the Martti Ahtisaari Rapid Reaction Facility.