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This booklet is published in commemoration of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations half a century ­after his untimely death in a plane crash in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia on 18 September 1961. It sets out to highlight some of the values and approaches Dag Hammarskjöld adopted in his norm-setting period of office. The booklet […]

This special issue of AJCR on Southern Africa – 50 years after Hammarskjöld underlines the current relevance of Hammarskjöld’s legacy and the continued relevance of his mindset and convictions for our efforts today to enhance peace and reduce violence and discrimination. This covers not only dimensions seeking to protect individual people. It also includes efforts […]

This new report is the first ever to take aim at Burma’s environment as a whole. It demonstrates the serious risks facing Burma’s extensive biodiversity and abundant natural resources, and it challenges the direction the country is taking toward increased large-scale resource extraction projects in the oil, gas, hydropower and mining sectors. Further, the report […]

Issue no.56 of Development Dialogue presents writings by Erskine Barton Childers who devoted his career to promoting visions animated by the spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld.

This is a very special issue of New Routes on the theme Dag Hammarskjöld and the United Nations.This edition is a special collaboration between the Life & Peace Institute (LPI) and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF). This is the most comprehensive issue of New Routes that has ever been published. On its 60 pages you […]

Fifty years ago, on 18 September 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld died in the plane crash near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia (today’s Zambia). The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation commemorates the event in many different ways, one of which is the publication of this remarkable story of a poet and a diplomat that will interest and intrigue many readers. The Knight and the […]

Issue no.55 of Development Dialogue is concerned with the continuing efforts to create normative global frameworks and implement them even-handedly.

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.

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 […]