Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and the End of Empire

This one-day conference is timed to mark the 50th anniversary of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s death. The conference will examine the role and legacy of Dag Hammarskjöld in relation to decolonisation in the 1950s-60s, in the context of global power shifts, the Cold War, and white supremacist movements. It will look at the experience of newly-independent countries joining the UN, and across the European powers, specifically France, Belgium and Britain.

The conference is co-arranged by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the British UN Association and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.

More information, including detailed programme, registration form etc. are available at http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/dagh.