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SE-753 10 Uppsala
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Tel: +46-18-410 10 00
Fax: +46-18-12 20 72
secretariat@dhf.uu.se
 
Between 1978 and 1991, the International Foundation for Development Alternatives (Ifda) published 81 issues of the Ifda Dossier. All of them being out of print, this electronic edition is now, outside libraries, the only public access to the some 8’500 pages of the Dossier.
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Critical Currents no. 7, November 2009
Carbon Trading – How it works and why it fails
 Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails outlines the limitations of an approach to tackling climate change which redefines the problem to fit the assumptions of neoliberal economics. It demonstrates that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the world’s largest carbon market, has consistently failed to ´cap´ emissions, while the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) routinely favours environmentally ineffective and socially unjust projects.
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 New issue of Development Dialogue
Development Dialogue no.53
Responses to mass violence – Mediation, Protection, and Prosecution
This volume engages with a normative framework shaped by discourse and resolutions within the system of the United Nations. The authors seek to provide beacons that can guide the course of those committed to fundamental human values. Most of the contributions were originally prepared for events relating to the Foundation’s work during 2008. These included two seminars on conflict mediation, a panel debate on the Responsibility to Protect as well as the second Voksenåsen Conference with an emphasis on sexual violence as a means of war.
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Critical Currents no. 6, October 2009
Contours of Climate Justice – Ideas for shaping
new climate and energy politics
 The climate is changing in more ways than one. Not only has an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere been wreaking havoc in the global biosphere, but there has also been a significant shift in the way the issue of climate change is debated. From being a marginal ‘green’ issue, it is now central to many a strategy for political and economic renewal. This collection of interventions contributes to the re-conceptualisation of climate change as an issue of justice, and therefore also of struggle. It further seeks to strengthen a climate and energy politics that will prove capable of solving the multiple crises that climate change is part of, and which humanity is facing.
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New report:
 "Accessible Alternatives: Ethnic Communities' Contribution to Social Development and Environmental Conservation in Burma"
Through case studies from different parts of Burma, this report exposes the harsh impacts that are inflicted on the environment and the livelihoods of ethnic people by the current development path that Burma is taking. The report draws attention to the knowledge and practices of ethnic communities that ensure sustainable natural resource management. It highlights positive cases in which community-based projects have helped revive the natural environment through restoration of traditional natural resource management systems.
The report is published by the Burma Environment Working Group, a coalition of environmental organizations and activists concerned about the ongoing rapid destruction of Burma's natural environment. The process of producing the report was facilitated by the Another Development for Burma project.
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26 October, Uppsala
Seminar
 What About Solidarity?
Exploring the North-South Civil Society Dynamics
Keynote speaker: Dr. Kumi Naidoo
Monday 26 October at 17.15 hrs,
at the Foundation.
The form and substance of solidarity has changed considerably since the fall of the Berlin Wall. At this seminar, we will explore the contradictions, conceptually and in practice, appearing between civil society in the North and South as global civil society becomes a
more powerful player in public life.
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 New issue of Development Dialogue
Development Dialogue no.52
What Next Volume II
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The case for Pluralism
This volume brings the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s What Next project to an end. Based on the Foundation’s longstanding tradition and continued commitment to Another Development, it pursued the search for alternatives by rethinking and thereby challenging dominant notions of development and progress.
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22-24 October, Stockholm
On 22-24 October, the European Development Days will take place in Stockholm (Älvsjö). The European Development Days is a yearly event hosted jointly by the European Commission and the EU Presidency, which brings together some 4.000 people and 1.500 organisations from the development community. The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation will have a stand at the European Development Days. If you are planning to go to Stockholmsmässan for the event, please visit us!
During the European Development Days, DHF Director Henning Melber will also take part in a a working session on Policy Coherence for Development: Panel discussion with Paul Engels (director ECDPM), Raili Lahnalampi (Advisor, Policy Coherence for Development, Office of the Secretary-General, OECD), Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif (African Union), Henning Melber (EADI), representative of Concord, Françoise Moreau (European Commission). The session is on 22 October at 17-19 hrs.
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1 October 2009, Stockholm
 Seminar
Inspiration, Innovation and Achievements
The Stockholm launch of two volumes from the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP) that conclude 10 years of intensive research, interviews and writing:
1. UN Ideas that Changed the World by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas G. Weiss, and 2. The UN and Development – from aid to cooperation by Olav Stokke. |
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 Monday 21 September
Screening and discussion
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and CEMUS–CSD Uppsala invite you to a screening of the award winning documentary film
Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country, and a follow up discussion on the struggle for democracy in Burma with prominent activists and politicians from the Burma democracy movement.
Where: Slottsbiografen, Nedre Slottsgatan 6, Uppsala
When: Monday 21 September at 18.15-20.30
(Cinema opens at 18.00, film starts at 18.15 sharp)
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 18 September 2009
Lecture
On Occasion of the 48th Anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Death a Lecture entitled The Need for Rule of Law in International Affairs was held by Dr Hans Corell, Ambassador and Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations. The lecture reflects on Dag Hammarskjöld's address at Oxford University on 30 May, 1961, "The International Civil Service in Law and in Fact". Register before 28 sept.
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Thursday 17 September 2009
Seminar
 Finding Ways Towards Dialogue, Democracy and Development in Burma
Stockholm, 17 September
The recent verdict against the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in combination with the Burmese regime’s plans for elections in 2010, engages the international community to again review its policies on Burma. What does the mainstream Burma movement for democracy and rights of ethnic nationalities suggest as possible ways towards dialogue and democratization, and what expectations do they have on the EU and the international community?
Organised by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, in collaboration with the Swedish Burma Committee and the Burma Network of the Swedish Parliament. The seminar aims to facilitate dialogue between Swedish Burma related stakeholders and the Burma democracy movement.
For more information contact: matilda.hald@dhf.uu.se
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Tuesday 15 September 2009
Public Lecture
Is Global Democracy Possible?
Lecture and debate with:
Jan Aart Scholte
Tuesday 15 September 2009, 17:15-19 hrs
at The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation,
Övre Slottsgatan 2, Uppsala. All welcome!
We are destined to inhabit a more global world in which challenges such as climate change, financial crises, infectious diseases and migration require ever greater elements of global regulation. Yet how do we ensure that a core value of the good society, democracy, is not sacrificed in the process? This debate explores the conceptual, pedagogic, institutional, economic and cultural conditions that would be required to advance democratic governance of global problems.
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Thursday, 10 September 2009
Public Seminar
Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber: Can we save true dialogue in an age of mistrust?
Lecture by and debate with:Lou Marin
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Thursday, 10 September 2009, 17.15 hrs
Organised in collaboration with Pax et Bellum.
Dag Hammarskjöld met Martin Buber, the philosopher of dialogue, three times between 1958 and 1961. They conferred about the possibilities of true dialogue in a political and cultural setting of a United Nations confronted with Cold War and an atmosphere of general mistrust. What significance has their exchange for the problems of today?
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