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The mission of Steninge House Foundation is to support and contribute to informed conversations on key issues of international peace and security, both public and private.The Foundation is an independent initiative to increase the resources and opportunities for dialogue on peace and security issues.
Activities
At its inception, the Foundation is already involved in supporting dialogues and exchanges in international relations with North Korea and Iran. The Foundation seeks to be connected to an incipient network of mediators from the Gulf and Nordic regions. It will explore other opportunities for dialogue as it develops.
In addition to dialogues between those involved in conflict, clashes and confrontation, held in private with independent facilitators, Steninge House Foundation stresses the need for the key issues of peace and security – both the short- and the long-term – to be publicly aired. Discussions among policy makers and experts, practitioners and politicians, journalists and business people are an essential part of finding a way to resolve the dilemmas and meet the challenges of global insecurity today. To the extent that its success in fundraising permits, the Foundation will support forums in which this can happen.
About Us
Steninge House Foundation has been produced by the close and longstanding cooperation between Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 2015 to 2025, and Per Taube, Distinguished Associate Fellow of SIPRI and a businessman and philanthropist. The Foundation will cooperate closely with SIPRI and, if ambitions are met, will be able to provide general financial support to SIPRI as well as financing for specific projects.
In its start-up phase, Steninge House Foundation is run as a project. At the outset, there is a two-person board, with Per Taube as the Chair and Dan Smith as the Director. This organisational form will allow the Foundation to develop, enlarging the Board if necessary as time goes by. The Foundation will invite prominent individuals involved in the issues it is addressing to join an Advisory Board.
