Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'Dag Hammarskjöld'

Swedish diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1961. Hammarskjöld's tenure was marked by his philosophy of quiet diplomacy, efforts to strengthen the UN's peacekeeping role, and navigation of Cold War tensions. His mysterious death while on a peace mission in the Congo remains controversial, creating numerous alternate history scenarios exploring how decolonization and UN development might have proceeded had he lived.

What If Peacekeeping Operations Never Existed?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the United Nations never developed peacekeeping as a conflict management tool, potentially leading to vastly different outcomes in post-WWII conflicts and international relations.