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Links to more information about Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld: The UN years
The UN’s website about Dag Hammarskjöld contains biographic material and photos.
www.un.org/Depts/dhl/dag/bio.htm

Blog about Dag Hammarskjöld
Hammarskjöld’s thought deserves a renewed welcome in today’s world. Each weekly edition of this blog takes a fresh look at something he saw, something he said.
www.dag-hammarskjold.com

Dag Harmmarskjöld Foundation
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation was established in 1962 in memory of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations.
www.dhf.uu.se/

The 2007 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture at Uppsala University (PDF 1 MB)
Lectures given by Sture Linnér and Sverker Åström, two persons who both worked with Hammarskjöld and knew him personally.
www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/Dh_lecture_2007.pdf

Kofi Annan – The Fourth Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture (PDF 450 kB)
Lecture from 2001 by then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/Kofi.pdf

Dag Hammarskjöld – The Nobel Peace Prize 1961
The Nobel Foundation’s Dag Hammarskjöld biography.
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1961/hammarskjold-bio.html

The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by Rolf Edberg
The speech that ambassador Rolf Edberg gave at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1961.
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1961/hammarskjold-acceptance.html

Dag Hammarskjöld Library
The Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld Library in Uppsala was founded in 1966 to commemorate Dag Hammarskjöld. It is a depositary library receiving virtually all documents and publications from the United Nations.
www.ub.uu.se/sam/dh/e_index.cfm

Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Jönköping (Swedish)
The Foundation was formed in 1982 and works with peace issues in Dag Hammarskjöld’s spirit.
www.hammarskjoldstiftelsen.se

Penning- och valutapolitik, special issue about Dag Hammarskjöld (PDF 440 kB, Swedish)
In 2005, Sveriges Riksbank (the central bank of Sweden) published a document about Hammarskjöld’s carrier as an economist.
www.riksbank.se/pagefolders/22511/2005_3.pdf

Dag Hammarskjöld’s Backåkra (Swedish)
Backåkra is the name of the farm that Dag Hammarskjöld bought during his time as Secretary-General. Today, Svenska Turistföreningen runs it as a museum.
www.ystad.se/Ystadweb.nsf/AllDocuments/38641305D05006C0C1256ED9004C3CF4