Renewing UN Development
This paper argues that if true multilateralism in the global socio-economic arena is to be saved, there needs to be a radical re-think of what the UN delivers to its increasingly heterogeneous group of member states in the development field. The fundamental challenge for the UN development system is to reposition itself so that it […]
The youth bulge in a graying world – a demographic challenge?
Today, half of the world’s population is under 25 years of age, while 11% of the world’s population is aged 60 and over. The share of young and elderly will rise significantly by 2030, when the world’s population is estimated to reach 8 billion.
The 2014 Kofi Annan – Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture by Staffan de Mistura
Staffan de Mistura delivered the lecture on the theme of humanitarian and peacekeeping operations in the UN.
Global Food Governance
‘Due to a lack of broad global governance structures for food security; food and agriculture is today largely managed by actors promoting a discourse of trade liberalisation and a “new green revolution”, which has many drawbacks, especially for small-scale farmers (smallholders)’, argues Josefin Smeds in this Paper. Many small-scale farmers and civil society actors offer […]
Inclusivity in Peacebuilding
Do internationally supported peacebuilding initiatives manage to reach all of the people engaged in and affected by conflict? How can the international community move beyond token engagement of local stakeholders to support a peace that is genuinely locally owned and locally led? These are pertinent questions that the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and partners explore in […]
Drivers or spoilers – What can we expect from the private sector?
In order to eradicate extreme poverty and ensure lasting and sustainable human development actors from all sectors need to cooperate and contribute. To fulfill the post-2015 vision, new partnerships – especially with the private sector – have been called for by both the High Level Panel and the UN Secretary General. It has however not been clearly formulated how these new partners should play in.
Open Leadership
Jan Vandemoortele argues in development dialogue paper no.2 ‘Post-2015 – why another approach is needed’ that it is time for the UN to cut back on dialogue and focus the post-2015 consultations more directly towards a development agenda that is easy to communicate, implement and monitor. In this paper Jose Dallo advocates that continuous and inclusive dialogue […]
Universal goals for national action
A seminar on governance and Rule of Law as the foundation for human development. There is a strong correlation between Rule of Law and the level of development in a society.
Is the UN Development System Becoming Irrelevant?
The challenges described in development dialogue paper no.3, ‘UN Development at a Crossroads’, are elaborated further here. One particular problem is the lack of a unifying paradigm consolidating the ideational and operational parts of the UN Development system. Human Development could have been such a paradigm but failed to achieve a universal status partly due […]
UN development at a crossroads
UN Development at a Crossroads – what does it take to fix it? This seminar addresses the changing landscape in the world today, the emerging challenges for the UN development system in the future, and a possible way forward through reform.