The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation is an autonomous organisation. We provide a forum for free and frank debate, stimulating 
Our activities focus on United Nations-related issues. We promote the values of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second UN Secretary-General, within the current global development discourse.
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The Foundation plays a catalysing role through 
We build capacity on development, security, human rights and democracy by making possible the meeting of minds.
We provide a platform for different experiences and perspectives to reach a wider audience, inspiring further dialogues.
While we are a small secretariat with limited resources, we have been able to build up and draw on a large network. This includes members from international institutions, governments, the academic community, civil society organisations and social movements.
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- Current Collaborators
- Action for UN Renewal
- Africa Groups of Sweden
- African Studies Centre (ASC) Leiden
- Anna Lindhs Minnesfond
- Carbon Trade Watch
- CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizen Participation
- Civil Society Refleciton Group on Global Development Perspectives
- CODESRIA, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
- Dag Hammarskjold Institute for Peace Studies
- Daughters for Life
- Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
- European Association of Development Training and Research Institutes (EADI)
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
- FUF – Swedish Development Forum
- German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)/Institute of African Affairs
- Global Policy Forum
- Harald Edelstam Foundation
- Hugo Valentin Centre
- Institute for Security and Development Policy
- International IDEA
- International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)
- Istituto Affari Internazionali
- Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
- Life & Peace Institute
- Life-Link Friendship-Schools
- Olof Palme International Center
- Pax et Bellum
- Realizing Rights – The Ethical Globalization Initiative
- Steget före
- Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden (SEF) – Development and Peace Foundation, Bonn
- Swedish Burma Committee
- Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
- Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- Tällberg Foundation
- The Hague Academic Coalition
- The Nordic Africa Institute
- Transnational Institute
- UF – Uppsala Association of International Affairs
- UN-Non Governmental Liaison Service
- UNITAR
- United Nations Intellectual History Project
- United Nations University
- University of Pretoria – Department of Political Sciences
- Uppsala Peace Museum
- Uppsala University
- Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the Washington University School of Law
- Wider Network
- Daghammarskjöld.se
- ETC Group
- Global Campaign for Climate Action
- Global Call to Action Against Poverty
- Hammarskjöldblog.com
- Ifda dossier
- Independent World Report
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)
- People’s Health Movement
- ReAct – Action on Antibiotic Resistance
- The Corner House
- Turbulence-Ideas for Movement
- World Press Freedom Day
- Current Collaborators
Voices about the foundation
Dag Hammarskjöld would have been delighted with the very effective and innovative work the Foundation does, especilly in two areas that greatly concerned him – international organisation and the problems of developing countries.
Brian Urquhart, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
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The End of the Development-Security Nexus? The Rise of Global Disaster Management
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Thinking and policy on ‘development’ and ‘security’ have undergone paradigmatic shifts in recent decades. The well-known merger of development and security into a ‘development-security nexus’ is now shifting towards an...
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