by chloe | Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is a year since Nelson Mandela was laid to rest. His death was mourned around the world – and rightly so. Few could hold a candle to Mandela and we all felt our collective loss. But the...
by alegriaperez | Sep 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Sir Ronald Sanders, ICWS Senior Research Fellow If the people of Scotland vote for independence from the United Kingdom on September 18, they will be buying a one-way ticket to their own misfortune, with consequences that will go beyond their borders affecting...
by virginiafiguero | May 20, 2014 | Asia, Uncategorized
By Dr James Chiriyankandath Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and Co-Editor of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. With the din of the Indian election campaign dying away and the refrain of the BJP –...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
If the diversity of the Commonwealth member states in their economic ambitions and political aspirations is not managed to create mutual understanding and goodwill, it is their differences and divergences that will prevail.
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Dec 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Dr Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, ICwS As an integral part of the oral history project on the Commonwealth, last week we organised a key note lecture by former Secretary General Sir Sonny Ramphal (1975-1990). This was deliberately scheduled for the eve of the...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Nov 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Keith Somerville President Jacob Zuma has reacted angrily to the use of the term ‘born frees’ for the generation of young South Africans who will get their first chance to vote in next year’s elections. Speaking at a voter registration drive in Atteridgeville, west...
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