Dan Smith left PRIO in 2003. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Study of the peacebuilding experience of Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Norway.
Upon leaving PRIO in 2003, Dan Smith became Secretary General of International Alert in London.
Languages spoken:
English, French
Working experience:
1973-75: CND, London
1976-78: Richardson Institute for Peace & Conflict Research
1978-80: Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, London
1981-88: Freelance
1988-91: Associate Director, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam
1991-93: Director, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam
1993-01: Director, PRIO
2001-02: Visiting Fellow, The Norwegian Nobel Institute
2001-03: Senior Adviser, PRIO
2003: Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for Foreign & European Policy, Athens
Education:
MA in English literature, Cambridge (UK) 1973
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Journal Article in International Journal of Feminist Politics
Book Chapter in Will World Peace Be Achievable in the 21st Century?
Book Chapter in The Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
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in Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world's
oldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survived
through crises.
The final version of the synthesis report from the Joint Utstein Study of Peacebuilding is now available. The aim of the study was better implementation of existing policies on peacebuilding in the four original Utstein governments (Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK).
Dan Smith leaves PRIO to become Secretary General of the London-based NGO International Alert.