Ariel Rusila,MA SocSc, is a Finnish freelancer and project management expert who lives in Jyväskylä, Finland. He has worked mostly in the Barents region, the Murmansk region of Russia and Kosovo/Serbia (Balkans). His main blog is Conflicts by Ariel Rusila (http://arirusila.wordpress.com ) and he also participates to debates about European Union, international politics, conflicts and crisis management. He has also launched an Ariel -newssite (http://arielfi.wordpress.com ) which covers Israeli defence, politics and society in Finnish language.