Dan Smith is the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute(SIPRI). He has a long record of research and publication on a wide range of conflict and peace issues. Among other issues, he has studied and written on the relationship between climate change and insecurity, peace and security issues in the Middle East, peacebuilding, the ethics of forcible intervention in conflicts, gender and conflict, nuclear arms control and strategy, and global conflict drivers, dynamics and trends. His most recent book is the 10th edition of The State of the World Atlas (2020).