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A Guide to the Contemporary Commonwealth #Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001 #9780333963104 #265 pages #2001 Philanthropic Organisations, after concentrating for over a decade on fostering professional interchanges, the Foundation was given a vastly enlarged mandate in 1980. From being a charity in law, it became an international organisation with eight areas of interest. The list food production, health. The Commonwealth of Learning, in a quiet suite of offices in Vancouver, BC, the Commonwealth's least-known major agency may be found at work in comfortable, if remote, surroundings. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL in the argot) came into being in 1989 to fulfil one of the most visionary. Ethos, Values and the 1991 Declaration, in the argot of the contemporary Commonwealth, groups of buzzwords have been assembled to highlight the values that member countries strive to uphold. Democracy, human rights, good governance and the rule of law are seen as the concomitants. The Secretariat and the 1971 Declaration, the most significant landmark in the organisation of the modern Commonwealth was the creation of the Secretariat in 1965. Strong support for the proposal from the new African members took the 'old'Commonwealth members by surprise. 1 Yet the idea. Rhodesia's UDI and the Crisis of the 1960s, the first three decades of the 'New Commonwealth'were overshadowed by Britain's disenchantment with the association. Although fears that the Secretariat would develop simply into an African pressure group were not realised, Commonwealth meetings were. Sport and the Commonwealth Games, abstract 'The future of the Commonwealth will not rest on economic factors alone. It is vitally important for the continual relevance and strength of the association that the meaning and spirit of Commonwealth reaches the grassroots, particularly young people. Sport can serve. The Logo, the Venue and the Argot, abstract The Queen as the Head of the Commonwealth is a symbol well known throughout the world. The Commonwealth logo, by contrast, is one of the most obscure. Unlike the five rings of the Olympic Games which people instantly recognise, those who are shown. Public-Private Partnerships and a Commonwealth Business Culture, the most striking example of non-governmental contributions at the start of the new century was the new-found role expected of the private business sector. In the emerging new balance within the Commonwealth, private investment and private management expertise. Conclusion: The Commonwealth and the New Century, the Commonwealth embarked on the new century nursing considerable satisfaction about the renaissance of the 1990s, while facing some urgent issues about the association's future. Through all the activities, innovations, declarations and reassessments of the final. A guide to the contemporary Commonwealth, my intention in this book is to provide a fresh guide to the contemporary Commonwealth. The need for such a book has been a constant refrain in numerous reviews of Commonwealth activities over the past ten years. My main concern is to highlight critical. The Secretariat and the CFTC, for all its ivory tower isolation in Queen Anne splendour, behind high walls and security guards off Pall Mall, the Secretariat is the hub of the contemporary Commonwealth. The first three Secretaries-General from 1965 to 2000, each, in his own manner, made particular. At the Summit⠔Chogms, abstract The Heads of Government Meetings are the only aspect of the Commonwealth to make headlines, apart from the Queen and the Games. To use the argot, they represent the 'Commonwealth at the Summit'and are known by the flat neologism 'Chogm'. Generally. Outgrowing the Commonwealth⠔The Case of Cabi, the oldest and largest of the inter-governmental organisations was not listed, for the first time, along with the other leading IGOs, in the 1998 Commonwealth Yearbook. It appeared, but only within a list of some 130 organisations under the heading 'Commonwealth Network. Below the Summit, as the Chogms became shorter, meetings below the summit those of ministerial groups and senior officials took on a greater significance. The three-and-a-half-day pattern established by the Heads of Government in the mid-1990s left no opportunity. Apartheid and the Crisis of the 1980s, the end of UDI and the admission of Zimbabwe into the Commonwealth in 1980 removed the most bitter bone of contention of the previous 15 years. But it brought little respite for Britain. In his report for the 1981 Chogm, Secretary-General Ramphal said that. Republic Status and the 1949 Declaration, abstract India, Pakistan and Ceylon became Dominions and members of the Commonwealth, but Burma, which became independent in 1948 a month before Ceylon, became a republic outside the Commonwealth. As it was well known, from the end of 1946. The Commonwealth Foundation, housed within the Secretariat complex, in the west wing of Marlborough House, is the Commonwealth Foundation. With a staff of scarcely more than a dozen and an income of only£ 2,600,000, the Foundation is on an altogether smaller scale than its co-tenant. Membership, at the time of writing there were 54 members of the Commonwealth. Of this total, over half had populations of less than one million at independence when they joined. Between the era of the five-nation 'British Commonwealth of Nations' an unwritten alliance. Dominion Status and the 1926 Declaration, the Dominions made up the original core of the Commonwealth, but this label would soon disappear from the political dictionary. Ironically, Virginia is still known as the 'Old Dominion', but 'Dominion of Canada'dropped out of common use from the 1920s. Canada joined. Origins and Meanings, a publisher once told the author that 'Commonwealth'in the title was the kiss of death for a book. One reason for the Commonwealth's low profile in public imagination is that its meaning and symbols are obscure and little understood. During the 1997 Chogm.
