Themes

Our chosen themes focus on issues currently attracting Commonwealth attention. We will include articles from our archives which are freely available.

Countdown to the April 2018 Commonwealth Leaders’ Summit:

• Challenges facing Commonwealth leaders
• Commonwealth students share their views on the future of the Commonwealth
• CHOGM and Climate Change
• Engaging Commonwealth Organisations
• The Gambia’s return to the Commonwealth and The Gambia’s Chief Justice in conversation with Round Table

In the countdown to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in November 2015, the themes had been Choosing a Secretary-General and Climate Change.

Choosing a Secretary-General:

• A Crucial Election: The Next Commonwealth Secretary-General, Alex May, 2015 
• Colombo Notebook 3 The Lost Summit, Stuart Mole, 2013
• The Modern Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, 2011
• The Commonwealth Secretary General, Derek Ingram, 2008
• A Commonwealth of Values; a Commonwealth of incomparable value Reflections of a Secretary-General 2000 – 2008, Don McKinnon, 2008
• An Ornithology of Secretaries-General: The Commonwealth and its Leadership , 2005
• The Commonwealth in 21st Century Focus, Peter Marshall, 2014
• Democracy and the Commonwealth, Kamalesh Sharma, 2011

Climate Change:

• The Commonwealth, Climate change and coral reefs, Terence Dormer, 2015
• Threatened Island Nations: Legal implications of rising seas and a changing climate, Carola Betzold, 2013
• Australia, Climate Change and the Global South, Lorraine Elliott, 2011
• Special Issue: Environmental Governance: Securing Our Common Wealth, 2012
• Special edition on climate change, 2003