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Timo Smit
Senior Researcher
Timo Smit
Timo Smit was a Senior Researcher in the SIPRI European Security Programme and the SIPRI Peace Operations and Conflict Management Programme. His research focused primarily on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) of the EU, particularly the aspects of it related to civilian crisis management.
Prior to joining SIPRI in 2014, he was a research assistant at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and a junior analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Brussels.
Subject expertise
European Security (EU, NATO), EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), multilateral peace operations, civilian crisis management
Regional expertise
Europe
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
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Iraq since the invasion: 20 years in SIPRI data (Topical backgrounder, )
- Multilateral peace operations in 2020: Developments and trends (Topical backgrounder, )
- Global and regional trends in multilateral peace operations, 2009–18 (Topical backgrounder, )
- Global and regional trends in multilateral peace operations, 2008–17 (Topical backgrounder, )
- Trends in multilateral peace operations—new SIPRI data (Topical backgrounder, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2024 (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2024)
- Towards a More Strategic Civilian CSDP: Strengthening EU Civilian Crisis Management in a New Era of Geopolitics and Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2024)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2023 (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2023)
- New Compact, Renewed Impetus: Enhancing the EU’s Ability to Act Through its Civilian CSDP (SIPRI, Stockholm : November 2023)
- Delivering the Compact: Towards a More Capable and Gender-balanced EU Civilian CSDP (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2022)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2021 (May 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, 2020 (June 2020)
- Trends in Multilateral Peace Operations, 2019 (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2020)
- Increasing Women’s Representation in EU Civilian CSDP Missions (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2020)
- Increasing Member State Contributions to 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, 2019 (May 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, 2018 (May 2018)
- Trends in Women’s Participation in UN, EU and OSCE Peace Operations (October 2018)
- African Directions: Towards an Equitable Partnership in Peace Operations (February 2017)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2017 (May 2017)
- Multilateral Peace Operations and the Challenges of Terrorism and Violent Extremism (November 2017)
- SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2016 (September 2016)
- Peacekeepers Under Threat? Fatality Trends in UN Peace Operations (September 2015) 12 pp.
- The Consensus on Mali and International Conflict Management in a Multipolar World (September 2014) 8 pp.
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)