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Issue 1, Volume 113, Year 2024Caricom @ 50

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Issue 5, Volume 113, Year 2023Religion and Commonwealth values

Religion and Commonwealth values

Issue 3, Volume 112, Year 2023Malaysia: The 15th general election and its implications

Malaysia: The 15th general election and its implications

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Issue 1, Volume 103, Year 2014‘The role of private electronic media in radicalising Pakistan’ by Kiran Hassan

The effects of the algorithms which lead social media users to more and more extreme content, and the role of social media in providing a platform for political extremists and the dissemination of misinformation, have become problems for all countries. In this article from ten years ago, Kiran Hassan (co-ordinator of freedom of expression and digital rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies) presciently analysed the role of social media in spreading extremism in Pakistan in the wake of 9/11. ['From the Archives' curated by Alex May and Paul Flather]

Issue 351, Volume 88, Year 1999‘Common citizenship in a multicultural society’ by Bhikhu Parekh

In this article from 25 years ago, the eminent political theorist Bhikhu Parekh (since 2000 Lord Parekh) considered the question of how a multicultural society comprising different cultural communities could develop a common sense of belonging in such a way that differences could be not only unthreatening but positive. He found the answer in constitutional accommodation of diversity, justice, a multiculturally constituted common culture, and a shared sense of loyalty to the political community.

Issue 3, Volume 104, Year 2015'Palestine’s membership in the Commonwealth as a contribution to a lasting peace in the Middle East’ by Victor Kattan

Written following the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister of Israel, this article highlighted the need for international pressure to breathe new life into a faltering peace process: on the one hand to persuade Israel to respect the international consensus on a two-state solution, abide by international law, and freeze settlement activity in the West Bank, and on the other to persuade Palestinians to enter into negotiations on a peace treaty. Palestinian and Israeli membership of the Commonwealth was suggested as a stepping-stone in this process.

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