Meet our incoming Executive Director, Björn Holmberg, who will take up his new position in the middle of July.
He sat down with Simone Hagfeldt to tell us more about why he wanted to take up this position.

A warm welcome to the Foundation!

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At #SthlmForum event co-hosted by Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation & Interpeace, PBSO’s Deputy Head Awa Dabo emphasized criticality of leveraging new partnerships to develop options for more sustainable peacebuilding financing, including w/ development finance institutions & private sector

Today's panel event at #SthlmForum , co-hosted by Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation & Interpeace, will discuss how private & public investments can support peacebuilding. Moderated by Sigrid Gruener, joined by Awa Dabo, Elina "Elya" Mariutsa, Frederik Teufel & Kawtar Zerouali. bit.ly/3WtoF3Q

At SIPRI #SthlmForum panel on Partnerships for Financing Peace, panellists including of @interpeacetweet @financeforpeace discussed how development, investors and peacebuilders can collaborate to create sustainable financing models for peace in conflict-affected settings.

Are you attending this year’s SIPRI Forum?
If so, make sure not to miss our panel discussion, co-organised with Interpeace on ‘Enhancing partnerships for financing peace’ tomorrow 8 May, 09:00 -10:15:
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Are you our next Programme Manager or Programme Director? The Foundations is now recruiting for two new positions with a closing date of 19 May. Read more about the positions here: daghammarskjold.se/about-us/vacan…

Dennis Francis, UN GA President was interviewed to mark the International Day of #Multilateralism and International #DiplomacyforPeace . He shares his reflections on the challenges, lifting the importance of multilateral diplomacy: daghammarskjold.se/interview/hope…

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Today, 8 April 2024, Kofi Annan would have celebrated his 86th birthday. Now, more than ever, we need effective leadership that can bring together a divided world – the kind that Kofi Annan embodied.

#Leadership #Leadership InADividedWorld #EffectiveLeadership #KofiAnnan

Our March newsletter is out – read it here: mailchi.mp/daghammarskjol…

This week, the Foundation’s Peace and Security team participated in the first-time organised Int'l Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding on #CoastalWestAfrica , hosted by UN Development UN DevelopmentGhana
Read more: daghammarskjold.se/news/the-found…
Finance for Peace Interpeace

Today the ”Hammarskjöld room” at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs was inaugurated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström and the Foundation’s Chair Hans Wallmark. The Foreign Minister received ’Dag Hammarskjöld - Markings of his life’ by Henrik Berggren

Today our finance team presented the findings from our and UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office 's latest finance report at the ‘Partnerships, Financing and Resource Mobilisation For Sustainable Development’ course organised by
United Nations System Staff College in Bonn. Read more about the findings here: financingun.report

Here is in brief some of my reflections on #UN #field #leadership synthesised from my six positions in as many countries as captured by ⁦Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation⁩ Foundation in its UN leadership interview series. daghammarskjold.se/blog/un-leader…

What does it take to lead #UN teams effectively in some of the worlds most challenging contexts? In this interview with Frode Mauring, we learn more about the #leadership needed to move #development forward: daghammarskjold.se/blog/un-leader…

#UN RC #SDGs UN Development #DPRK

For #WomensDay24 we highlight the need to #InvestInWomen by sharing the #Fin4DevUN article by Anita Bhatia & Aparna Mehrotra @UNWomen in which they track investments in #genderequality
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#InvestInWomen #8march #WomenDay2024 #GEM

For #WomensDay24 we wish to highlight this article from WeArePurposeful on how to #InvestInWomen during times of crisis, such as the #COVID19

Read it here: daghammarskjold.se/wp-content/upl…

#IWD #Feminism #8march #DDVolume

Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Henrik Hammargren Thanks, Henrik, for stellar leadership of
the Hammarskjold Foundation for almost a decade.
The memory of Dag Hammarskjold has by you been kept alive in several dimensions. You have also actively helped develop key concepts at the United Nations, not least its peace building dimension.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Collection at @KungligaBiblioteket is one of @Unesco #MemoriesoftheWorld . In February, the Foundation visited the library and received an excellent presentation by Mats Rohdin & Greger Bergvall. Read more about the collection here: unesco.org/en/memory-worl…

Our February newsletter is out – read it here: mailchi.mp/daghammarskjol…]

In mid-February, the Foundation's staff thanked their Executive Director, Henrik Hammargren, as he left his position. Read his reflection letter here: daghammarskjold.se/news/reflectio…