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Solidarity, Dag Hammarskjöld and the United Nations

Solidarity, Dag Hammarskjöld and the United Nations

by Talking Humanities | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized

Professor Henning Melber, director emeritus and senior advisor of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, reflects on the notion of solidarity and the legacy of the second United Nations secretary-general, who died in a mysterious plane crash on 18 September, 55 years...
Congo: its past, present and link to Hiroshima

Congo: its past, present and link to Hiroshima

by Talking Humanities | Aug 18, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement

Dr Susan Williams, whose new book, Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II, centres on the covert race between the Americans and the Nazis to get their hands on all the uranium in the Belgian Congo, reports on a groundbreaking event that put the...

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