What a Photo Reveals
Dag Hammarskjöld and Dialogue: What can this one photo tell us about the former Secretary-General? Find out in this blog entry from Henning Melber.
Preventing and Responding to Radicalisation in Africa – A Development Approach
Violent extremism represents a growing threat to Africa’s hard-won development gains and poses a significant challenge to the achievement of the Global Goals.
Marketing for Peace: Why a marketing strategy can help the UN build and sustain peace
What do the 4Ps of marketing have to do with peacebuilding? In our first blog post Sigrid Gruener explores how to draw financing for peacebuilding.
Tribute to Boutros Boutros-Ghali
We learned with sadness of the sudden passing of former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
The 2015 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture by José Ramos-Horta
José Ramos-Horta delivered the lecture on the theme ‘Preventing conflicts, Building Durable Peace’.
Inclusive Peacebuilding: Recognised but not Realised
Issue 63 of Development Dialogue explores how to support and practice inclusive peacebuilding, urging a move away from symbolic engagement to genuine participation.
The Annual Nobel Peace Prize Seminar – Can Tunisia Point the way?
Discussing the role of civil society in peacebuilding and lessons learnt from the Tunisian experience during the Arab Spring to the new democratic constitution.
Environment, Sustainability, Development: Exploring the Challenges
Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s Director Emeritus and current Senior Advisor, Henning Melber, engaged with students and scholars in Vienna a few days after the Climate Summit in Paris on the occasion of two events discussing issues related to development paradigms in times of climate change adaptations and the SDGs.
General Assembly Resolution on Hammarskjöld’s death
The resolution “Investigation into the conditions and circumstances resulting in the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld and of the members of the party accompanying him” was passed in the General Assembly on 19 November.
Meeting on Dag Hammarskjöld in Italy
The recently founded Italian association, Dag Today, organised a seminar on Hammarskjöld’s ideals, ethics and political and diplomatic action. Dr Henning Melber, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus, gave a speech on Dag Hammarskjöld’s ethics as an international civil servant.