About Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) was a world citizen. During his period as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961 he became known as an extremely efficient and dedicated international civil servant.

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Commemoration, Dag Hammarskjöld 1961-2011

On 18 September 2011, it will be 50 years since Dag Hammarskjöld died in the plane crash near Ndola in then Northern Rhodesia (today’s Zambia). This will of course be commemorated in various ways across the world.

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The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture

The annual Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture is, since 1998, given in memory of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and in recognition of thevalues that inspired him as Secretary-General and generally in his life—compassion, humanism and commitment to international solidarity and cooperation. The Lecture is jointly organised byt the Foundation and Uppsala university

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Kofi Annan – Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture
on International Peace and Security

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) in Uppsala and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra enter an agreement for a jointly organized annual lecture

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A blog about Dag Hammarskjöld

Roger Lipsey is an active member in the Foundation’s network. He has a book in progress on the mind and methods of Dag Hammarskjöld, based on research in the United States, Sweden, and Great Britain. While that book takes shape—and perhaps well after publication—he has established a blog “as a reader’s place where Hammarskjöld’s political wisdom and profound humanism can be rediscovered, as fresh and compelling today as in its own era, the mid twentieth century”. http://www.dag-hammarskjold.com