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Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture
Poster
Rights, Justice and United Nations Values – Reflections through a Palestine refugee prism

Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA)

Public Lecture
Thursday 26 November 16.15
(Seats should be taken by 16.00)
Uppsala University Hall

Performance by Allmänna Sången
Organised together with Uppsala university

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Carbon Trading – How it works and why it fails

cc_coverCarbon 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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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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Contours of Climate Justice – Ideas for shaping
new climate and energy politics


cc_coverThe 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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Burma Environmental 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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Seminar

Kumi NaidooWhat 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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Development Dialogue no.52

What Next Volume II
- 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

european development days

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.

For programme and other information on the European Development Days, see http://www.eudevdays.eu.

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Lecture series at Peace Museum

The DHF is one of the co-organisers of a seminar series at the Peace Museum during October and November. The first two lectures in the series are:

Tuesday 20 October (19.15 hrs): "Zimbabwe och Södra Afrika - insikter och utsikter" by Sten Rylander, Swedish Ambassador to Zimbabwe. Venue: Fredsmuseum (Peace Museum), Uppsala castle, entrance H. NB: the lecture will be held in Swedish.

Wednesday 21 October (19.15 hrs): "Klimatavtal och global rättvisa" by Niclas Hällström, climate expert at the Swedish Association for Nature Conservation. Venue: Fredsmuseum (Peace Museum), Uppsala castle, entrance H. NB: the lecture will be held in Swedish.

Read more on these lectures and other events
at the homepage of the Peace Museum

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UN ideas that changed the worldSeminar

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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Seminar

The Writing of the United
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at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) on
Wednesday, 30 September, from 15 to 18 hrs.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, together with SCAS, organise this seminar on the occation of the launch of two new books from the United Nations Intellectual History Project: The UN Development – From Aid to Cooperation and UN Ideas That Changed the World. Take this chance to interact directly with the authors Olav Stokke and Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas G.Weiss.

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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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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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Seminar

burmaFinding 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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Jan Aart Scholte
Jan Aart Scholte
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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Public Seminar

Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber: Can we save true dialogue in an age of mistrust?

Lecture by and debate with:Lou Marin
Martin Buber
Martin Buber


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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Short walk and Music

Commemorating Dag Hammarskjöld's birthday

hammarskjöldAshort walk in Dag Hammarskjöld's spirit. Starting at Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (Övre Slottsgatan 2) and ending at the peace museum with a musical represantation of Dag Hammarskjöld's life and deeds by Göran Frölén.

Guests are welcome to the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation at Geijersgården by 1300 hrs.

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What About Solidarity?
Exploring the North-South Civil Society Dynamics


Inspiration, Innovation and Achievements

The Writing of the United Nations Intellectual History

The Need for Rule of Law in International Affairs

Finding Ways Towards Dialogue, Democracy and Development in Burma

Is Global Democracy Possible?

Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber – Can we save true dialogue in an age of mistrust?

Care of people and care of the environment: What mainstream economics has neglected

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Carbon Trading
– How it works and why it fails


Contours of Climate Justice – Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics

Responses to mass violence – mediation, protection, and prosecution

What Next volume II
– The case for pluralism


Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2008:
Can the International Community Meet the Challenges Ahead of Us?

Postneoliberalism
– A beginning debate


Revisiting the heart of darkness – Explorations into genocide and other forms of mass violence. 60 years after the UN Convention

The United Nations, Security and Peacekeeping in Africa – Lessons and Prospects

Post-Nargis Analysis – The Other Side of the Story

Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2007:
UN Secretary-General Hammarskjöld – Reflections and personal experiences


The Quest for Regional Representation – Reforming the United Nations Security Council


 
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