Elizabeth Smith

Research Assistant

Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith was a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research focused on climate change, peacebuilding and gender.

Prior to joining SIPRI, Elizabeth was a trainee at a Swiss impact investor. In 2018, she graduated as a member of the inaugural MSc class in Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics. There, she was awarded a distinction on her dissertation, which analyzed the potential in and implications of integrating climate change into the Women, Peace and Security Agenda through its National Action Plans. She also holds a BA in Geography from Dartmouth College. During her undergraduate degree, she was part of Dartmouth’s War and Peace Fellows program, interned at an NGO in India focusing on girls’ empowerment, and studied in France and the Czech Republic.

Subject expertise

Gender; Climate Change and Security; Peacebuilding; Human Security; the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Languages

English, French

Education

BA in Geography, from Dartmouth College; MSc in Women, Peace and Security, from the London School of Economics and Political Science

Citizenship

United States

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Scope for improvement: Linking the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to climate change (Essay, June 2020 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Black, R. et al., Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
de Coning, C. et al, Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Environment of Peace (Part 2) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
Smith, Elizabeth S., Gender Dimensions of Climate Insecurity (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2022)
Climate-related Security Risks and Peacebuilding in Mali (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2021)
Kim, K., Broek, E., Smith, S. E., Michel, D., De Nys, E. and Salazar Godoy, N., Water Cooperation in the Horn of Africa: Addressing Drivers of Conflict and Strengthening Resilience (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
Climate Change in Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans (June 2020)
Krampe, F., van de Goor, L., Barnhoorn, A., Smith E. and Smith, D., Water Security and Governance in the Horn of Africa (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2020)