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‘Insights, inspiration and breaking down stereotypical barriers’

What is it like working as an international civil servant? Per Knutsson, Programme Director and Deputy Executive Director at the Foundation answered this question, sharing his experiences as well as his work during a lecture organised by the student organisation, the Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (FFK) at Lund University.

Vacancy: Executive Director

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation is looking for a new Executive Director. The application deadline is 10 December.

Watch the Interactive Summary on Intersectionality

The Foundation is promoting an interactive summary highlighting key messages from the 65th Volume of the Development Dialogue, Intersectionality: Experiences, views and visions for change. 

‘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.

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 […]