Conference on Dag Hammarskjöld's Plane Crash: Dr Roger Lipsey 

On 29 February 2024, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (School of Advanced Study) and the UN Association Westminster hosted this conference to consider next steps for the current UN investigation into the tragic crash that killed the UN Secretary General and 15 others in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961. Further information about the conference and transcripts of many of the papers can be found on the Institute’s website at commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/. Here Dr Roger Lipsey (author of Hammarskjöld. A Life (2013)), discusses the enduring legacy of Hammarskjöld’s life and the higher duty of creative action that he exemplified.