Dealing with Crimes Against Humanity
Issue no.55 of Development Dialogue is concerned with the continuing efforts to create normative global frameworks and implement them even-handedly.
The 2010 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture by Francis Deng
Francis Deng delivered the lecture on the theme: “Genocide Prevention – A Challenge of Constructive Management of Diversity”.
Genocide prevention by Francis Deng
The 2010 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture: Genocide Prevention – A Challenge of Constructive Management of Diversity by Francis Deng, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide.
Boiling Point » Can Citizen Action Save the World?
Issue no.54 of Development Dialogue presents civil society activist Kumi Naidoo’s plea for the involvement of ordinary people in the work for greater justice.
The Ethics of Dag Hammarskjöld
This booklet contains three speeches on the topic of Dag Hammarskjölds ethics, held during 2009. A lecture by Hans Corell presented on the occasion of a Commemorative Event on the 48th Anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Death at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala, on 18 September; The first Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture in Voksenåsen presented by Inge […]
Can We Save True Dialogue in an Age of Mistrust? The encounter of Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber
Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber met three times between 1958 and 1961. They conferred about the possibilities of true dialogue in the political and cultural setting of a United Nations confronted by the Cold War and an atmosphere of general mistrust. Hammarskjöld observed ‘Walls of Distrust’ between the superpowers’ representatives at the United Nations and […]
Rights, justice and United Nations values – reflections through a Palestine refugee prism by Karen AbuZayd
The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2009 held by Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The 2009 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture by Karen AbuZayd
Karen AbuZayd delivered the lecture on the theme “Rights, Justice and United Nations Values Reflections through a Palestine Refugee Prism”.
Carbon Trading – How it works and why it fails
Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails outlines the limitations of an approach to tackling […]
Responses to Mass Violence – Mediation, Protection, and Prosecution
Issue no.53 of Development Dialogue reflects upon efforts to implement more justice within the institutionalised framework of the UN system.