The New Agenda for Peace: Strengthening application of peacebuilding norms
Dr Armend Bekaj, Programme Manager in the Foundation’s Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace project shares an overview of the most recent online seminar with the International Training on Dialogue and Mediation Alumni Network hosted jointly by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.
Do we weep or rejoice? The 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jemina Holmberg, the Foundation’s Programme Manager for Human Rights challenges us to live up to the ideals set out in the Universal Declaration of Human rights.
‘Leadership should build on the very foundation of the organisation’
We recognise International Human Rights Day with a Leadership Interview Leni Stenseth, Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Veronika Tywuschik Sohlström and Marijana Markotić from the Foundation’s Leadership team asked the questions.
Pathways to Peace Report: An opportunity to change mindsets and build inclusive, democratic societies
Armend Bekaj writes about ‘Social exclusion and inequality: what is the efficacy of conflict prevention today?’ – an International Training on Dialogue and Mediation (ITDM) Alumni Network seminar co-hosted by the Foundation and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR) at Uppsala University.
Ukraine and potential global food crises: Ramifications for peace
Programme Manager Armend Bekaj reflects on how can we can cope with the food crises that fuel conflict around the world.
‘We all have the opportunity to be a Human Rights Defender’
‘The significance of civil society in upholding human rights, democracy, and accountability in Ukraine,’ was a Nobel Lecture Roundtable hosted by the Foundation in collaboration with Uppsala University on 14 December 2022.
Coping with a ‘code red for humanity’ needs creative multilateral approaches
Edit Morin-Kovacs writes about her water journey and the potential of this vital resource to bring lasting peace and co-operation.
Leadership is a service, not command and control
Savita Hande shared her views on leadership in an interview with Veronika Tywuschik- Sohlstrom and Marijana Markotic.
Quietly Paying Respects
The Executive Director of the Foundation laid flowers on Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave on 18 September 2022 to commemorate the death of Second Secretary-General to the United Nations
HLAB Impressions on the legacy of Dag Hammarskjöld
In September 2023 the United Nations will host the Summit of the Future as one of the central ways to move the Our Common Agenda forward. It is expected that those gathering would want to advance ideas for governance arrangements in areas to be considered as global public goods and or commons such as climate […]