The late US President John Kennedy described Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary-General from 1952-1961, as “the greatest statesman of our century.”
Lipsey’s book, a Kindle edition which I completed in two sittings, describes Hammarskjold as one “bound by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, equal rights of men and women, and the practice of tolerance – that people can live together in peace.”“As a visionary, he never promised paradise as he led efforts to secure economic welfare, social justice and stability in countries and cultures of widely differing character.
Lipsey considers Hammarskjold, the first in Western political life to practice mindfulness and without fanfare, and to give it a crucial role. He is also influenced by Arthur Waley’s book, “The Way and its Power,” a commentary of the Tao Te Ching, where a group of peacemakers were constantly rebuffed but never discouraged. Of the difficulties in working towards the road to peace, he said there are no precedents or experiences which entitle us not to try again, so we must persevere. Our weapons are trust in our impartiality, our experience and knowledge, our maturity of judgment.
At this time when human rights in the Philippines had deteriorated, according to World Report 2021, due to the President’s war on drugs which had targeted mostly the poor, the noticeable spike in violations due to the COVID-19 lockdown, and our conflict with China over sovereignty of the West Philippine Sea, we may take a leaf from the kind of ethical leadership that Hamarskjold had shown during his nine-year tenure at the UN.
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