Celebrating youth’s role in peace and security efforts
After feeling unequally treated for her gender in schools, Minna was inspired to do something and bring men into the conversation on how to realise gender equality. Nathan films and screens documentaries to facilitate conversations on what is needed to address inequality and violence in his hometown of Fortaleza, Brazil. These young peacebuilders started the […]
Antimicrobial resistance: Addressing the funding dilemma
Options for the mobilisation of funding to ensure effective antibiotics and combat antimicrobial resistance.
Localising the 2030 Agenda in Colombia
This paper describes Colombia’s process of localising the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The 2018 Kofi Annan–Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture by Adama Dieng
Under-Secretary-General Adama Dieng delivered the 2018 Kofi Annan–Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture on the universal responsibility for the prevention of armed conflicts.
Between internationalism and integrity
Examination of how individual UN bureaucrats balance their loyalty to the international system, and why their personal integrity and loyalty affect the work of the organisation.
The Missing ‘Peace’: Anniversary seminar on youth, peace and security
Join Fryshuset and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation for an interactive session on youth and peace on Human Rights Day
Financing peacebuilding: Walking the talk
The Foundation participated in the Carnegie PeaceBuilding Conversations in The Hague, in the Netherlands by moderating a session on ‘Financing Sustaining Peace and Peacebuilding – walking the talk of innovation’.
My UN changes for the better
Like any other organisation, the UN is not ‘perfect’ and has its fair share of shortcomings. This is a moment of re-evaluation.
Exploring Dag Hammarskjöld’s engaged spirituality
Dag Hammarskjöld’s world was one as secular as it was spiritual. It was the ability to combine both, to find inner strength in the values in order to act politically with determination. The two were inseparable.
Kofi Annan – Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2018 by Adama Dieng
The 6th Kofi Annan – Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture was given by Adama Dieng in Accra, Ghana, on 3 October 2018.