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Timo Smit
POSITION AT SIPRI
Senior Researcher
Timo Smit
Timo Smit is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Peace Operations and Conflict Management Programme. His research focuses on developments and trends in multilateral peace operations, women’s representation in peace operations, civilian crisis management, and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) of the European Union (EU). He also maintains SIPRIs Multilateral Peace Operations Database.
Prior to joining SIPRI, he was a research assistant at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly and a junior analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies.
Subject expertise
Multilateral peace operations, civilian crisis management, European Union Common Security and Defence Policy, peace operations data
Regional expertise
Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa
CONTACT Timo Smit
Languages
Dutch, English, Swedish
Education
MSSc in Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; MA in International Relations, University of Groningen
Citizenship
Netherlands
Sweden
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Iraq since the invasion: 20 years in SIPRI data (Topical backgrounder, March 2023)
- Multilateral peace operations in 2020: Developments and trends (Topical backgrounder, May 2021)
- Global and regional trends in multilateral peace operations, 2009–18 (Topical backgrounder, May 2019)
- Global and regional trends in multilateral peace operations, 2008–17 (Topical backgrounder, June 2018)
- Trends in multilateral peace operations—new SIPRI data (Topical backgrounder, May 2017)
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2023(SIPRI, Stockholm:May 2023)
- Delivering the Compact: Towards a More Capable and Gender-balanced EU Civilian CSDP(SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2022)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2021May 2021)
- Women in Multilateral Peace Operations in 2021: What is the State of Play?(SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2021)
- Strengthening EU Civilian Crisis Management: The Civilian CSDP Compact and Beyond(SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2021)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2020June 2020)
- Trends in Multilateral Peace Operations, 2019(SIPRI, Stockholm:May 2020)
- Increasing Member State Contributions to EU Civilian CSDP Missions(SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2020)
- Increasing Women’s Representation in EU Civilian CSDP Missions(SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2020)
- Women in Multilateral Peace Operations in 2020: What’s the State of Play?(SIPRI, Stockholm:October 2020)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2019May 2019)
- Towards a More Capable European Union Civilian CSDP(SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2019)
- Towards a More Gender-balanced European Union CSDP(SIPRI, Stockholm:November 2019)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2018May 2018)
- Trends in Women’s Participation in UN, EU and OSCE Peace OperationsOctober 2018)
- African Directions: Towards an Equitable Partnership in Peace OperationsFebruary 2017)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2017May 2017)
- Multilateral Peace Operations and the Challenges of Terrorism and Violent ExtremismNovember 2017)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2016September 2016)
- Peacekeepers Under Threat? Fatality Trends in UN Peace OperationsSeptember 2015), 12 pp.
- The Consensus on Mali and International Conflict Management in a Multipolar WorldSeptember 2014), 8 pp.
- 2. Global developments in armed conflicts, peace processes and peace operations (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2022)
- 2. Global developments in armed conflicts, peace processes and peace operations (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2021)
- 4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and Oceania (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
- 2. Global developments in armed conflicts, peace processes and peace operations (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
- 3. Peace operations and conflict management (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
- 3. Peace operations and conflict management (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
- 5. Peace operations and conflict management (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
- 7. Peace operations and conflict management (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2016)
- 5. Peace operations and conflict management (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
- 3. Peace operations and conflict management (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
External publications
- Smit, T., 'Fredsarbete för 2000-talet' [Peace work in the 2000s], eds J. Björkman and A. Jarrick, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Årsbok 2016/2017 (Makadam förlag, 2016).