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Timo Kivimäki is Professor of International Relations at the University of Bath (UK) and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Sejong Institute (Seoul, Republic of Korea). Professor Kivimäki joined the University of Bath in January 2015. Previously he has held professorships at the University of Helsinki, University of Lapland, and at the University of Copenhagen. Professor Kivimäki has also been director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen) and the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Helsinki.
In addition to purely academic work Professor Kivimäki has been a frequent consultant to the Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Swedish governments, as well as to several UN and EU organizations on conflict and terrorism.
In his new books Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence: UN discourses and practices in fragile states (London, Routledge 2021) and Failure to Protect. The Path to and Consequences of Humanitarian Interventionism (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) Professor Kivimäki revealed new patterns in contemporary warfare, and made sense of them by looking at political discourses and cases of unilateral humanitarian intervention and UN peacekeeping. His conclusions on unilateral pattern of humanitarian intervention are damning: humanitarian interventions contribute to the increase in the number of fatalities among civilians and to the weakening of state capacity to contain violence. At the same time UN peacekeeping is much more successful. UN's respect for local solutions, interest in facilitating dialogue rather than enforcement of its own solutions, and the focus on the poverty-related to threats to human security have all been associated with the reduction of fatalities of organized violence and the strengthening of state's ability to regulate political and economic competition and contain violence. In his forthcoming project he looks at the success and failure of regional actors in their intervention into organised violence in their own region.
Kivimäki's book Paradigms of Peace (London: Imperial College Press, 2016) assesses the contribution of various social scientific paradigms to peace research and peace and sets an agenda for constructivist pragmatist peace research. The Long Peace of East Asia by Kivimäki (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014) offers a constructivist understanding of the relative peace of East Asia since 1979. Kivimäki's book, Can Peace Research Make Peace. Lessons in Academic Diplomacy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012), was nominated for the prestigious Best Book Prize by the Conflict Research Society in year 2014. Kivimäki's recent articles on peace and conflict topics were published in the Chinese Journal of International Relations, Pacific Focus, the Pacific Review, Social Sciences, Journal of Refugee Studies, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of International Relations and Development, Asian Security and the Middle East Policy.
Willing to supervise doctoral students
Dissertations on the relationship between state fragility and conflict, as well as on the international efforts at protecting civilians in fragile and predatory states.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Conflict and peace-building in the MENA region: is social protection the missing link?
Jawad, R., Aslam, W., Devine, J., Forrester-Jones, R., Kivimaki, T. & Walton, O.
1/04/20 → 31/03/24
Project: Research council
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(Development Award) Social protection and sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Building a new welfare-centred politics
Jawad, R., Aslam, W., Kivimaki, T. & Walton, O.
1/07/19 → 31/03/22
Project: Research council
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Is There a Need for an Update of the Theory of Deterrence? US Failure in North Korea
Kivimäki, T., 31 Dec 2022, In: Asian International Studies Review. 67, 54, p. 1-27 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Russian Sphere of Influence. What is it? What Could It Be?
Kivimäki, T., 7 Feb 2022, (Acceptance date) The World Financial Review, 2022, March/April.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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The Fragility–Grievances–Conflict Triangle in the MENA Region: Conclusions of the Special Issue
Kivimäki, T., 22 Feb 2022, In: Social Sciences. 11, 3, 92.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Kivimäki, T. (ed.) & Jawad, R. (ed.), 24 Mar 2022, Basel: MDPI.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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When Ideologies Became Dangerous: An analysis of the transformation of the relationship between security and oppositional ideologies in US Presidential Discourse
Kivimäki, T., 19 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Coding of US Presidential discourse on protection
Kivimaki, T. (Creator), University of Bath, 25 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00535
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A Dataset on the Discourse, Approach and Outcomes of UN Peacekeeping, 1993–2019
Kivimaki, T. (Creator), University of Bath, 15 Apr 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00783
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Data on the Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle
Kivimaki, T. (Creator), University of Bath, 27 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00951
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Data on the securitization of ideologies in US presidential speech
Kivimaki, T. (Creator), University of Bath, 7 Apr 2022
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01127
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