Dan Smith is Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He is also a part-time Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester, affiliated with the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. Until August, 2015, he was Secretary General of International Alert, the London-based international peacebuilding organisation.
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Published in: openSecuritySyria: intervention - or the great power game?Rather than giving the opposition a decisive means to victory, arms to Syria will only prolong the violence and...
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Published in: HomeJust when you thought it was safe to go back into the bank…
The people who brought us the banking crashes of 2007-2008 that became the credit crunch 2008-2009 and the economic...
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Published in: HomeResources: the coming crunch and some things that could be done about itIn the twentieth century the west’s boundless determination to extract ripped apart the social, political and...
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Published in: openSecurityThe EU's Nobel Peace Prize
On Monday 10th December 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. For better or worse, the prize focuses...
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Published in: openSecurityThe far horizons of peacebuilding – and the nearPeacebuilding and development can no longer be thought of in terms of what was always an over-simplified...
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Published in: HomeA scorecard from Busan: did the High Level Forum contribute to aid effectiveness in conflict-affected countries?
The high ambition of getting global agreement tends to lead to an unambitious convergence on the least demanding...