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Critical Currents

Critical Currents is a Occasional Paper Series published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. It is mainly distributed electronically in pdf format. Printed copies may be obtained by using this form or mailing a request to

Below the issues are listed in chronological order.
A more compact list of the issues can be found here.

Can we save true dialogue in an Age of Mistrust? The encounter of Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber

Critical currents No. 8, January 2010
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Can we save true dialogue in an Age of Mistrust? The encounter of Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber
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Dag Hammarskjöld and Martin Buber met three times between 1958 and 1961. They conferred about the possibilities of true dialogue in the political and cultural setting of a United...
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Carbon Trading – How it works and why it fails

Critical currents No. 7, November 2009
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Carbon Trading – How it works and why it fails
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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...
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Contours of Climate Justice – Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics

Critical currents No. 6, October 2009
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Contours of Climate Justice – Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics
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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...
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The United Nations, Security and Peacekeeping in Africa – Lessons and Prospects

Critical currents No. 5, October 2008
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The United Nations, Security and Peacekeeping in Africa – Lessons and Prospects
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United Nations peacekeeping operations go back to Dag Hammarskjöld’s initiatives as the second Secretary-General. More recently, they have taken on hitherto unprecedented dimensions. By far the largest proportional engagement is...
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The Quest for Regional Representation – Reforming the United Nations Security Council

Critical currents No. 4, May 2008
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The Quest for Regional Representation – Reforming the United Nations Security Council
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There is widespread discontent among the now 192 member states of the United Nations with its Security Council – the most powerful of the UN’s six principal organs as it...
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