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...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Sep 12, 2013 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
By Richard Bourne and Helena Whall The Commonwealth’s First Nations: Rights, Status and Struggles in the run up to the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 2014 – Conference Programme Not since Idi Amin’s threat to attend the London Commonwealth summit in...
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