Editorial for WHO on a legal framework to address antimicrobial resistance
Our future health depends on forming an international legal framework that resolves – or at least substantially reduces – the problem of antimicrobial resistance.
An editorial for World Health Organization’s Bulletin has been published on the issue of the need for a new legal framework in order to address antimicrobial resistance. Dag Hammarskjöld’s Acting Director Fiona Rotberg is one of the authors. The others are: Steven J Hoffman, Kevin Outterson, John-Arne Røttingen, Otto Cars, Charles Clift, Zain Rizvi, Göran Tomsonh and Anna Zorzet.
Global Disorders: A New Global Order?
Issue 62 of Development Dialogue juxtaposes good practices and positive change on the ground with explorations of life-threatening global disorders.
Making the UN ‘Fit for Purpose’: Lessons from the ‘Delivering as One’ Experience
Nearly 60 years have passed since the UN development system was established and, during these years, the world has changed significantly. The UN system faces challenges in keeping pace with the world around it and in remaining a leading ‘partner of choice’ in a rapidly changing world.
Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency
As UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld shaped many of the fundamental principles and practices of international organisations, such as preventive diplomacy, the ethics of international civil service, impartiality and neutrality. He was also at the heart of the constitutional foundations and principles of the UN. This tribute and critical review of Hammarskjöld’s values and legacy examines […]
Older Persons and the Post-2015 Agenda – a Sub-Saharan Perspective
There are multiple priorities under consideration in the post-2015 development agenda. If however, we are to approach the dialogue through a life-cycle lens, then the issues related to ageing and the demographic shifts cannot be left behind. Globally, by 2030, persons aged 60 and above (older persons) will outnumber children under the age of 10. […]
Post-2015 and the Poison Threads – Shift the Gaze
In this paper Amitabh Behar talks about the ‘golden threads’ of global development versus the ‘poison threads‘, the latter according to Behar are the real causes of endemic poverty, growing inequality and exclusion. ‘The global leadership and the UN face the sizable challenge of making a historic choice between continuing the legacy and hegemony of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]