50 Years Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Issue 60 of Development Dialogue provides a comprehensive and holistic look at the past, as well as a thought-provoking assessment of future challenges.
No Future Without Justice
Issue 59 of Development Dialogue seeks to look beyond, challenge and question the conventional understanding of development, and stimulate debate on alternative paths.
The End of the Development-Security Nexus? The Rise of Global Disaster Management
Issue 58 of Development Dialogue explores the rationale behind the institutionalisation of interventionism, and the consequences thereof in a number of policy domains and cases.
Albert Luthuli and Dag Hammarskjöld – Leaders and Visionaries
Two symposia in Uppsala and Oslo during November 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chief Albert Luthuli and Dag Hammarskjöld at the same ceremony for 1960 and (posthumously) 1961, respectively. The deliberations, which involved close family members of the late Chief Luthuli, commemorated and honoured two outstanding leaders of […]
Reform Proposals for a Democratic UN and the Rule of Law
This booklet presents writings by Erskine Barton Childers who sought to enhance the work of the United Nations through reform initiatives and recommendations.
Dag Hammarskjöld Remembered: A Collection of Personal Memories
It is now fifty years since Dag Hammarskjöld left the world and the United Nations behind. Yet, with every passing year since his death, his stature grows and his worth along with his contribution becomes more apparent and meaningful. When Hammarskjöld was at its helm the United Nations was still a relatively young organization, finding […]
The United Nations and Regional Challenges in Africa – 50 Years After Dag Hammarskjöld
Issue no.57 of Development Dialogue examines in historical perspective the values and norms Dag Hammarskjöld lived – and died – for.
The 2011 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture by Jan Eliasson
Jan Eliasson delivered the lecture on the theme “Peace, Development and Human Rights”.
A Reader’s Guide to Dag Hammarskjöld’s ‘Markings’
Dag Hammarskjöld’s posthumously discovered journal was first published in 1963. The original manuscript consists of a collection of brief typewritten statements placed in a loose leaf folder. Hammarskjöld, it appears, from time to time typed out his journal entries and placed them in the folder. Nothing indicates that he considered the journal completed, or that […]
Dag Hammarskjöld Literature
A bibliographical compilation based on the collections of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala. Fifty years have passed since Sweden’s most famous peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjöld, was killed in a plane crash in Africa – but his legacy lives on. The publications listed in this bibliography not only consist of biographies or books on UN, but also […]