Tarja Halonen, former president of Finland visited Uppsala the 6th May as the 2013 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecturer. Almost 500 people had come to the Uppsala University Hall to hear President Halonen speak on the topic of women’s role in the sustainable world.
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Dag Hammarskjöld Lectures
Jan Eliasson, 2011
Peace, Development and Human Rights: The Indispensable Connection
Francis Deng, 2010
Genocide Prevention – A Challenge of Constructive Management of Diversity
Karen Abuzayd, 2009
Rights, Justice and United Nations Values Reflections through a Palestine refugee prism
Martti Ahtisaari 2008
Can the International Community Meet the Challenges Ahead of Us?
Sture Linnér & Sverker Åström 2007
Generalsekreteraren Hammarskjöld – Personliga erfarenheter och reflektioner
Hans Blix 2005
UN Reform and World Disarmament Where do we go?
Noeleen Heyzer 2004
Women, War and Peace – Mobilising for Peace and Security in the 21st Century
Mamphela Ramphele 2003
Courage, Commitment, and Capacity Building on Dag Hammarskjöld’s Legacy
Lakhdar Brahimi 2002
The Rule of Law at Home and Abroad: The Need for Respect of International Law by All Nations
Kofi Annan 2001
About 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.Dag Hammarskjöld emphasised that a major task of the UN is to assert the interests of small countries in relation to the major powers. He also shaped the UN’s mandate to establish peace-keeping forces. Before he was appointed UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld held high positions as a civil servant in the Swedish government.
Dag Hammarskjöld also had strong cultural interests and was a member of the Swedish Academy. His book Markings, published after his death, has become a classic.
Most of Dag Hammarskjöld’s childhood and adolescence were spent in Uppsala where his father was the provincial governor. The city’s importance in the formative stages of Hammarskjöld’s life is easily discernible in his writings, among them the moving essay Castle Hill, which was written in New York shortly before his death.