Dan Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | PRIO |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7492-0246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environment of Peace
The environmental crisis is increasing risks to security and peace worldwide, notably in countries that are already fragile. Indicators of insecurity such as the number of conflicts, the number of hungry people and military expenditure are rising; so are indicators of environmental decline, in climate change, biodiversity, pollution and other areas. In combination, the security and environmental crises are creating compound, cascading, emergent, …
Le mouvement européen pour le désarmement nucléaire et le non-alignement
L’auteur souligne la variété et la diversité des mouvements pour le désarmement de l’Europe de l’Ouest. Il suggère de regarder le groupe Désarmement nucléaire en Europe (DNE/END) non pas comme un groupe de coordination des autres militants en Europe mais bien comme un groupe ayant apporté une contribution originale. De fait, l’effort de ce groupe réside dans la réflexion qu’il a su susciter par la publication d’un document intitulé « Appeal for E…
Climate resilience in fragile and conflict-affected societies
To understand resilience to climate and environmental changes in fragile and conflict-affected societies is particularly important but equally challenging. In this paper, we first develop a conceptual framework to explore the climate-fragility-conflict and climate-resilience-peace nexus. Second, we discuss approaches to promote pathways from climatic changes to peace. We draw on the relevant literature and International Alert's experience in frag…
Understanding Resilience in Climate Change and Conflict Affected Regions of Nepal
In the face of global climate change, strengthening community resilience becomes increasingly important, especially in conflict affected countries with fragile governance. Nepal is such a country, recovering from a decade of civil war while facing several climate and environmental risks, including floods, droughts and landslides. We aim to contribute to the understanding of resilience building by drawing on case studies from Banke, Dang and Rolpa…
Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder
"Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder." Development in Practice, 17(3), pp. 460–461
Dendroglaciological Evidence For A Neoglacial Advance Of the Saskatchewan Glacier, Banff National Park, Canadian Rocky Mountains
Seventeen glacially sheared stumps in growth position and abundant detrital wood fragments were exposed by stream avulsion at the terminus of the Saskatchewan Glacier in 1999. The stumps lay buried beneath the glacier and over 5 m of glacial sediment until historical recession and stream incision exposed the 225- to 262-year-old stand of subalpine fir, Englemann spruce and whitebark pine trees. Crossdating and construction of two radiocarbon-cont…
Marx and T. F. Tout
A decade of doing things differently
In Manitoba, reform of the public sector under the rubric of new public management went into full swing during the 1990s. This article analyses this reform movement as it touched on universities and seeks to understand how successful government was in implementing its reform initiatives to internal management structures at universities. At issue is the ability of governments to promote reform initiatives in institutions that are self‐governed, au…
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Ethical Uncertainties of Nationalism
This article asks whether there is a moral right to national self-determination. The partiality argument as a basis for discussing the moral right to self-determination confuses nation and nationalism and is found wanting. Social science conclusions on the construction of nations have to be brought into the framework of the ethical argument, because they reflect upon the nature of the `self' in question. While a case can be made that national sec…
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Integrating Serbia into the Balkan Region
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The meddlers
Environment of Peace
The environmental crisis is increasing risks to security and peace worldwide, notably in countries that are already fragile. Indicators of insecurity such as the number of conflicts, the number of hungry people and military expenditure are rising; so are indicators of environmental decline, in climate change, biodiversity, pollution and other areas. In combination, the security and environmental crises are creating compound, cascading, emergent, …
Climate resilience in fragile and conflict-affected societies
To understand resilience to climate and environmental changes in fragile and conflict-affected societies is particularly important but equally challenging. In this paper, we first develop a conceptual framework to explore the climate-fragility-conflict and climate-resilience-peace nexus. Second, we discuss approaches to promote pathways from climatic changes to peace. We draw on the relevant literature and International Alert's experience in frag…
The meddlers
The Nordic Countries
The end of the Cold War raises anew the old question of the alternative uses of the resources spent on the arms race. Disarmament is now taking place in Europe and the security environment of the Nordic countries is changing dramatically. Studies in the Nordic countries and elsewhere indicate that once transition problems are surmounted the medium-to-long-term effects of disarmament will be positive for employment as well as economic growth. The …
Understanding Resilience in Climate Change and Conflict Affected Regions of Nepal
In the face of global climate change, strengthening community resilience becomes increasingly important, especially in conflict affected countries with fragile governance. Nepal is such a country, recovering from a decade of civil war while facing several climate and environmental risks, including floods, droughts and landslides. We aim to contribute to the understanding of resilience building by drawing on case studies from Banke, Dang and Rolpa…
Ethical Uncertainties of Nationalism
This article asks whether there is a moral right to national self-determination. The partiality argument as a basis for discussing the moral right to self-determination confuses nation and nationalism and is found wanting. Social science conclusions on the construction of nations have to be brought into the framework of the ethical argument, because they reflect upon the nature of the `self' in question. While a case can be made that national sec…
Nationalism and peace
The mainstream school of Anglophone theory on nationalism is the starting point for considering how it might be possible to prevent nationalist conflicts turning violent, or ameliorating them after they have. The leading members of this school do not take up this task. Four reasons for this are identified—anti‐essentialism, normative cosmopolitanism, functionalism and a narrow historical focus. The first of these is sacrosanct but the others can …
Just War, Clausewitz and Sarajevo
1. From Peacekeeping to Intervention United Nations peacekeeping operations in the late 1980s and early 1990s registered several successes, which bred the belief that the UN offered, if not a new world order, a new capacity to deal with disorder. UN intervention started to be seen as a solution for increasingly complex and violent problems. Peacekeeping was no longer an adequate term. The rubric was expanded, not least by the Secretary-General (B…
The New Cold War
This article on the new cold war continues our new section of C & C, which is intended to provide background information and analysis on current affairs. Our aim is that these articles should be short (no more than 3,500 words) as snappy as C & C contributors can make them, and free from the constraints of detailed research and lengthy footnotes that characterise our usual offerings. They can address any matter of topical concern, whether it be o…
Facts' about the Military
Detailed examination of armed forces and military industry must rely for its empirical basis on various publically available reference books, of which the most prestigious and author itative are The Military Balance and the series of Jane's annuals. Although there are large areas of consensus between the various sources, close study reveals numerous discrepancies between them and within them. Some of these discrepancies can be reconciled by pains…
Protest and survive
The New Cold War
This article on the new cold war continues our new section of C & C, which is intended to provide background information and analysis on current affairs. Our aim is that these articles should be short (no more than 3,500 words) as snappy as C & C contributors can make them, and free from the constraints of detailed research and lengthy footnotes that characterise our usual offerings. They can address any matter of topical concern, whether it be o…
Facts' about the Military
Detailed examination of armed forces and military industry must rely for its empirical basis on various publically available reference books, of which the most prestigious and author itative are The Military Balance and the series of Jane's annuals. Although there are large areas of consensus between the various sources, close study reveals numerous discrepancies between them and within them. Some of these discrepancies can be reconciled by pains…
Towards a New Strategy for Global Freedom
Nostalgia for Empire
It was only to be expected that when Margaret Thatcher visited Washington she would congratulate President Reagan on his plans for the U.S. economy, say predictable things about resisting Soviet expansionism in El Salvador and elsewhere, and declare Britain to be America's staunch ally. What was a bit of a surprise was that she should offer British participation in an American-led multinational Rapid Deployment Force for dealing with trouble spot…
Les guerres de l'apres-guerre. Conflits et guerres civiles dans le monde depuis 1945
The Nordic Countries
The end of the Cold War raises anew the old question of the alternative uses of the resources spent on the arms race. Disarmament is now taking place in Europe and the security environment of the Nordic countries is changing dramatically. Studies in the Nordic countries and elsewhere indicate that once transition problems are surmounted the medium-to-long-term effects of disarmament will be positive for employment as well as economic growth. The …
Between Urgencies and Impossibilities
Nationalism and peace
The mainstream school of Anglophone theory on nationalism is the starting point for considering how it might be possible to prevent nationalist conflicts turning violent, or ameliorating them after they have. The leading members of this school do not take up this task. Four reasons for this are identified—anti‐essentialism, normative cosmopolitanism, functionalism and a narrow historical focus. The first of these is sacrosanct but the others can …
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Just War, Clausewitz and Sarajevo
1. From Peacekeeping to Intervention United Nations peacekeeping operations in the late 1980s and early 1990s registered several successes, which bred the belief that the UN offered, if not a new world order, a new capacity to deal with disorder. UN intervention started to be seen as a solution for increasingly complex and violent problems. Peacekeeping was no longer an adequate term. The rubric was expanded, not least by the Secretary-General (B…
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