Elif Kalan, as one of the founding members of the Turkey Antenna of the Mediterranean Women Mediators’ Network, has been working within civil society sector at the local, national and international levels for developing contents on Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, Local development, public and civil engagement and programs for various organizations such as the Youth Association for Habitat, UNDP, UNICEF, UNWOMEN, and universities such as Sabancı University, Kadir Has University, Bilgi University, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University and Coventry University, as well as international organizations such as RET International, GIZ, Concern Worldwide, and US Consulate. She is also one of the founders of Conflictus Training and Consultancy as delivering trainings on conflict analysis and resolution.
Along with these, she is also co-Founder of of the İhtiyaç Haritası (www.ihtiyacharitasi.org Needmap) project. She has experienced in working with refugee communities as consultants for the GIZ and UNWOMEN for the last 3 years. She has been a consultant to GIZ Youth Leaders for Social Cohesion (between refugee and host communities) program that was implemented in Turkey between 2017 and 2019. Moreover, she was a trainer consultant to UNWOMEN as a National Trainer on Gender Sensitive Refugee Response.
Since 2005, she has designed and delivered training programs in Turkey and in abroad on negotiation and mediation, peace education, social media and peace, child rights and the Child Friendly Cities Framework, youth participation and youth empowerment in volunteerism in English and Turkish. She also took part in writing of a peace education manual focusing on adult education
(http://unoy.org/wp-content/uploads/Mainstreaming-Peace-Education.pdf)
She, also had provided consultancy as a project reviewer at the CAPS4Access Project that was supported and financed by the European Commission
As a legislative fellow supported by the US State Department, she visited the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) October 2013.
Jury Member of European Youth Award in 2013.
ERG - Evaluation Team 2014.
2005 yılından bu yana farklı sivil toplum örgütleri, yerel yönetimler ve Birleşmiş Milletler kurumları ile çalışmaktadır. Bugüne kadar çalıştığı ve danışmanlık sağladığı kurumlar; Habitat Derneği, UNDP, UNICEF, UNIDO, UNWOMEN, GIZ, Sabancı Ünivesitesi, Bilgi Üniverstesi, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Coventry Üniversitesi şeklindedir. Türkiye’nin farklı kentlerinde, farklı gruplara barış eğitimi, çatışma analizi ve çözümü, müzakere ve arabuluculuk, çocuk hakları, gençlik katılımı, gençlik kalkınması ve gönüllülük konularında Türkçe ve İngilizce olarak eğitimler vermektedir. Eğitim içeriklerinin geliştirilmesi ve özel gruplara yönelik eğitim çalışmaları yapmaktadır. Yetişkinlere yönelik “Barış Eğitimi” (http://unoy.org/wp-content/uploads/Mainstreaming-Peace-Education.pdf) kılavuzunun yazarları arasındadır. Avrupa Komisyonu’nun çeşitli projelerine gözlemci olarak katkı sağlamaktadır.
Kalan, Conflictus Uyuşmazlık Çözümü Eğitimi ve Danışmanlığın kurucuları arasındadır, ve birçok grup ile eğitimler ve atölyeler gerçekleştirmektedir. Kalan aynı zamanda Akdeniz Kadın Arabulucular Türkiye Anteni’nde kurucuları arasındadır.