50 years Dag Hammarskjöld foundation [electronic resource] / edited by Henning Melber.
"The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation celebrated its first half-century on 2 March 2012. Its history is also a narrative of commitment to global solidarity and justice. This volume presents a series of portraits of the Foundation as it emerged over the past 50 years as an ideas-based organisation se...
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| Other title: | Fifty years Dag Hammarskjöld foundation. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala :
The Dag Hammarskjöld foundation,
2012.
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| Series: | Development dialogue ;
no. 60. |
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| Summary: | "The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation celebrated its first half-century on 2 March 2012. Its history is also a narrative of commitment to global solidarity and justice. This volume presents a series of portraits of the Foundation as it emerged over the past 50 years as an ideas-based organisation seeking to promote anti-hegemonic discourses and paradigms in support of democracy, security and human rights. The contributions reflect different perspectives on the Foundation's unfolding institutional profile, activities and development. In so doing, they document and celebrate various initiatives to keep the values and legacy of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations alive by applying them to contemporary issues."--P. [4] of cover. "Do you want to know how the handful of staff members operating from the 1960s into the 1980s at The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation came to support and closely collaborate with people like Patrick van Rensburg, Juan Somavia, Ahmed Ben Salah, Manfred Max Neef, Pat Mooney, Graca Machel, Joseph Ki-Zerbo and many others? Or why they received a cheque for US$ 100,000 from the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation Jan Pronk? -- Put differently: how this small institution with a big name was able to turn the belief that "ideas matter" into action and visible results? Then you should read the conversation between Thomas G. Weiss and Sven Hamrell recorded by the United Nations Intellectual History Project: "In Those Days it was Fun to be a Swede". Together with many more bits and pieces recollecting the past and assessing the current challenges, as well as providing space for the wider network and analyses from the outside, this oral history -- published for the first time -- is part of Development Dialogue no. 60 just released on occasion of the Foundations 50th anniversary."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 pages) : color illustrations, portraits. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISSN: | 0345-2328. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |