The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s What Next initiative seeks to identify and analyse emergent global challenges and explore strategies for social change. Carried out in close collaboration with numerous scholars and activists around the world, What Next builds on the Foundation’s three decades of work on development alternatives – initiated with the 1975 report What Now: Another development.
Drafts versions of these papers are available for
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on these papers. The papers will be published in three volumes. more
Special reports In addition, there are two longer special reports in preparation. The first report focuses on carbon trading, which is currently pursued as the major approach to tackling climate change.
The second special report examines modern society’s deep-seated reliance on technology to tackle social problems. It explores how ‘technology waves’ have been created historically and whose interests they have served. more