Timo Smit

POSITION AT SIPRI

Researcher

Timo Smit

Timo Smit is a Researcher with the SIPRI Peace Operations and Conflict Management Programme. He re-joined SIPRI in December 2014, having previously worked for the institute as an Intern and Research Assistant after graduating from Uppsala University. Timo is currently in charge of maintaining SIPRI’s database on multilateral peace operations (including data-collection), and conducts research on trends in peacekeeping.

Subject expertise

International Security, International Relations Theory, Conflict resolution and conflict management, Peacekeeping

CONTACT Timo Smit

Phone number

+46 766 286 339

Languages

Dutch, Swedish, English

Education

MSSc in Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden; MA in International Relations, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Citizenship

Netherlands

Sweden

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Trends in multilateral peace operations—new SIPRI data (Topical backgrounder, May 2017)
The state of peace operations: An interview with Lakhdar Brahimi (Topical backgrounder, October 2016)

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Avezov, X., van der Lijn, J. and Smit, T., African Directions: Towards an Equitable Partnership in Peace Operations (SIPRI: February 2017)
Smit, T., SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2017 (SIPRI: May 2017)
SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operations, 2016 (September 2016)
Peacekeepers under threat? Fatality trends in UN peace operations (SIPRI: September 2015), 12 pp.
The consensus on Mali and international conflict management in a multipolar world (SIPRI: 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).
Van der Lijn, J. and Smit, T., 'Peace operations and conflict management', SIPRI Yearbook 2015: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press), pp.155–232.
Van der Lijn, J., Smit, T. and Avezov, X., 'Peace operations and conflict management', SIPRI Yearbook 2014: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press), pp. 99–131.
Smit, T., ‘Table of multilateral peace operations, 2013’, SIPRI Yearbook 2014: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press), pp. 131–168.