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: HomeThe new UK coalition and international development policyThe dust has settled, the first peacetime coalition in seven decades is in office and the work begins. What about UK...
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Published in: HomeChaff, noise and fog in the climate debate
The UEA emails affair, together with the religiosity of some people’s approach on either side of the argument, has...
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Published in: HomeBeyond Haiti: preparing for the next disaster
As the relief effort finally gets under way, it is necessary to go beyond the immediacy of the tragedy and think a...
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Published in: HomeObama in power: is the war in Afghanistan a Just War?
The Just War tradition is not meant to be deployed as a tick-box approach to war, not least because answers to the...