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Page 4 Director’s Welcome 1 3
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Page 8 The Institute’s Research Portfolio Commonwealth Oral History Project Pushing the Boundaries: New Dynamic of Forced Migration in Latin America Indigenous People and Minority Rights Ruth First Digitisation Project Ecocide LGBTI Rights The Contemporary Commonwealth Human Rights Research Students
Page 15 Research Projects led by Institute Fellows Expanding, not Shrinking Social Programmes Political Islam and the Elections in Bangladesh
Page 17 The Institute’s Fellows
Page 25 Events
Page 28 Financial Statement
Page 31 The Institute’s Student Body
Page 33 Student Numbers Compared
Page 34 Librar y Report
3 DIRECTOR’S WELCOME 2012-13 was a pivotal year for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and for the School of Advanced Study as a whole. We emerged from it able to plan for the future with confidence and with a clear academic agenda. Since its creation in 1994, the School has been subject to periodic reviews by HEFCE, the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The latest review panel was chaired by Professor Edward Acton (Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia). This delivered its findings in November 2012 and the final report was published by HEFCE on 1 February 2013. Following the Acton report’s recommendations, HEFCE announced that the School would continue to be funded at the current level on the basis of a rolling five-year grant. This was a hugely welcome vote of confidence in SAS and its institutes, particularly in the current funding climate. It provides us with an unprecedented degree of financial security. But the Acton report also posed some challenges to the School which it needs to address in order to build on this success. Principal among these is to demonstrate that we are providing intellectual leadership to the academic community and promoting genuinely innovative research. For the Institute of Commonwealth Studies this means thinking about our current priorities. The Institute has historically maintained extremely Professor Philip Murphy close links with the London-based Commonwealth community, both official and non-official. We greatly value those links and will continue to build upon them in the work we do. But we also need to consider new ways in which we can serve the broader national and international community of scholars in line with the recommendations of the Acton Report.
We have already begun to put in place important changes. One of the great successes of the 2012-13 academic year was the visit of our first Emeka Anyaoku Professor of Commonwealth Studies since the post was reconfigured as a visiting chair. We were fortunate in having an outstanding scholar to fill this position: Professor Joseph Ayee, the Rector of Mountcrest University College in Ghana. Our hope was that the visiting chair would provide an important opportunity for an academic from a non-UK Commonwealth state not only to conduct and disseminate their own research but to build links between their home institution, the University of London, and scholars from across the UK. Professor Ayee’s tenure in the post more than fulfilled these hopes. He delivered a highly successful inaugural lecture in March 2013 on the theme of ‘The Developmental State Experiment in Africa: the Experiences of Ghana and South Africa’. A version of the lecture was subsequently published in The Round Table. We look forward to welcoming the second incumbent of the visiting chair, Eghosa E. Osaghae, Professor of Comparative Politics and Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Nigeria, who arrives in the UK in January 2014.
We were sorry to lose Daisy Cooper, who left the Institute to take up a senior management post at VSO. As its director, Daisy had revitalized the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit and had presided over its rebranding 3
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The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has long been a centre of excellence for research on Commonwealth History. The academic year 2012-13 witnessed a new and important milestone in that process as work began on our major AHRC-funded project to produce an Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth. As lead researcher, Dr Sue Onslow, has been making excellent progress. She has interviewed all three of the surviving Commonwealth Secretaries General and a range of other prominent figures in the history of the organization since 1965. Important preliminary work on the project was conducted by Dr Leo Zeilig as one of its co-investigators. On his departure from the Institute, Leo’s role was filled by Dr Ruth Craggs who joined the Geography Department at King’s College London in October 2013. The project’s website will be launched in November 2013 with a selection of some of the interviews conducted over the previous academic year. Other important activities relating to the history of the Commonwealth included the launch of former Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon’s memoir In the Ring with a panel discussion between the author and The Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator Peter Oborne.
The Institute has also continued to build on its reputation as a national and international centre of excellence in the field of Human Rights. In the course of the year, the School’s Human Rights Consortium came fully under the administrative responsibility of the ICWS. Under its Director, Dr Damien Short, and its administrator, Chloe Pieters, it provided the focus for a wide range of projects dealing with subjects as diverse as Indigenous Peoples and Minority Rights, LGBTI Rights, Ending Caste-Based Discrimination, ‘Ecocide’, Corporate Power and ‘Extreme Energy’. One of our most remarkable successes was the development of an anthology of human rights poetry, stemming from a ‘Human Rights Poetry Slam’ held at the Bloomsbury Festival, for which over 640 submissions were received. The resulting book, available to purchase, sold out of its initial print run within just a few hours. The Refugee Law Initiative continued to be an important element of our coverage of human rights. In October 2012, its director and founder, Dr David Cantor was awarded £210,862 as part of the prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders scheme to embark on a new research project titled ‘Pushing the Boundaries: New Dynamics of Forced Migration and Transnational Responses in Latin America’. Research on the project will continue until September 2015. Nor was this an isolated success in securing funded research with James Manor, Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth Studies, beginning his work on ‘Expanding, Not Shrinking Social Programmes: The Politics of New Policies to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Brazil, India, China and South Africa’. He also continued his leadership of a tripartite network grant between SAS, Yale University, and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla.
The hard work of my colleagues was also formally recognised during the year. David Cantor secured a promotion to be a Reader of International
5 DIRECTOR’S WELCOME Human Rights Law, while Dr Corinne Lennox was promoted to Senior Lecturer. Warmest congratulations to both of them.
Every year I am struck by the energy and academic quality of our student body, and this year was no exception. We had a genuinely impressive cohort including, for the first time, students on the MA from Kyrgyzstan who joined us through a collaborative scholarship programme with the Open Societies Foundation. Next year we will be supplementing that with another scheme in conjunction with the Roberta Sykes Foundation, a charity which provides funding for indigenous Australians to study overseas. These are great initiatives. They add diversity to our student body and remind us of the universal relevance of human rights questions. At the end of the year, eight distinctions were awarded, and particular mention should be made of Nicholas Maple the winner of the Albie Sachs prize for the best final dissertation. Congratulations also to our doctoral research students, Julian Francis, Antigone Heraclidou and Jennifer Melvin who were awarded their degrees this year.
As always, our research fellows and emeritus staff enriched the life of the Institute with their personal and collaborative research and by organising a range of events. Collectively, they provide us with expertise in areas not covered by our core academic staff. We continued to be extremely well served by our excellent team of administrative staff, led by our Institute manager, Paul Sullivan. While we face challenges ahead, we approach the forthcoming academic year confidently, with a real sense of achievement. 3 1 0 2
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Dr Corinne Lennox Lecturer in Human Rights
Dr David James Cantor Lecturer in Human Rights Law (2012 - 13); Director of the Refugee Law Initiative; Economic and Social Research Council Future Research Leader
Dr Damien Short Director: Human Rights Consortium and Senior Lecturer in Human Rights
Dr Sue Onslow Co-Investigator Commonwealth Oral History Project
Dr Leo Zelig Co-Investigator Commonwealth Oral History Project
Professor James Manor Emeka Anyaoku Professor of Commonwealth Studies (until September 2012)
Administrative Staff Mr Paul Sullivan Institute Manager
Ms Olga Jimenez Events Manager
Ms Chloe Pieters Events and Marketing Officer
Mr Robert Kenyon Administration and Communications
Ms Alegria Perez Academic Support Officer & PA to Director
Ms Helle Abelvik-Lawson Human Rights Project Officer
Ms Mehrunnisa Yusuf Academic Support Officer
7 THE INSTITUTE’S RESEARCH PORTFOLIO In 2012 the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) won a major COMMONWEALTH ORAL AHRC Research Grant of just under £400,000 to produce an oral HISTORIES PROJECT history of the Commonwealth since the creation of the Secretariat in PROFESSOR PHILIP MURPHY AND 1965. The project aims to make available the digitised transcripts of DR SUE ONSLOW over 60 extended interviews with leading figures in the organisation’s history over the course of half a century. Only a year after they began work, the team from the ICWS have made remarkable progress. Lengthy interviews have been conducted with all three surviving Commonwealth Secretaries-General: Sir Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal, Chief Emeka Anyaoku and Sir Don McKinnon. Other distinguished interviewees have included the former prime minister of Canada, the Rt Hon Joe Clark, former foreign secretaries from the UK (Lord Hurd and Sir Malcolm Rifkind), two former Indian foreign secretaries (Ambassadors Salman Haider and Shankar Bajpai), and former South African foreign and deputy foreign ministers (Pik Botha and Aziz Pahad).
The principal investigator on the project is Professor Philip Murphy, the director of the Institute of Commonwealth who has published extensively on the history of decolonization. Most of the interviews themselves have been conducted by Dr Sue Onslow, a specialist on British foreign and imperial policy, who is attached full-time to the project. Another key member of the team in its early stages was Dr Leo Zeilig, a historian of post-independence African politics. More recently, the project has been able to draw on the expertise of Dr Ruth Craggs, a cultural geographer based at King’s College London, whose work has focused specifically on the history of the modern Commonwealth.
The project presents major challenges – in view of the Commonwealth’s growth and its wide range of activities since 1965 – but also offers rich rewards. At the heart of the project is the question of whether the Commonwealth has had a genuine impact on international affairs. In addition to detailed reflections on the lengthy battle for racial justice in Southern Africa, the interviews suggest that the organisation can also claim to have made a contribution in some less prominent fields. These include attempts to support negotiations in civil wars (Biafra; Sri Lanka), the diplomacy around the creation of the law of the sea, economic diplomacy and development, and international debt forgiveness in the 1980s and ‘90s.
As an integral part of the project, the ICWS organised a day-long witness seminar in May 2013 at Marlborough House, the headquarters of the Commonwealth. This considered the work of the Secretariat itself, drawing on the memories of current and former members of staff. Another witness seminar focusing on Commonwealth heads of Government meetings is scheduled in November to coincide with the controversial summit in Sri Lanka. Sir Sonny Ramphal will be the 3 1
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PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES: Dr David James Cantor – Director of the Refugee Law Initiative at R e
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On the one hand, increasing arrivals of ‘extra-continental’ migrants and refugees, many from conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, are beginning to raise substantive challenges of security and justice for Latin American societies. On the other, particularly in Central America, novel contemporary patterns of gang- and drug-related generalised violence are producing extensive forced displacement. As states in the region seek to balance societal fears about terrorism and criminality against their international obligations to protect refugees, they look to develop new forms of regional cooperation on asylum and migration issues.
Yet such transnational cooperation on forced migration in Latin America is not new, but rather builds on existing regional initiatives; in particular, the emergence and consolidation of a network of bilateral and multilateral treaties on political asylum, as well as activities undertaken by the Organization of American States. Novel inter-governmental responses to forced migration have also emerged in specific historical contexts of violent societal conflict. For example, in the 1990s and 2000s conflict-related displacement in and from Peru and Colombia led to specific regional commitments towards refugees in Latin America.
State responses in Latin America to the new flows of migrants fleeing generalised violence on the continent and beyond seek to build on these past mechanisms. However, it remains to be seen whether the existing strategies will be sufficient to meet the acute legal and social challenges raised by new forms of forced migration in Latin America. Among the far-reaching questions to be addressed by the research project are:
• What are the implications for security and justice of the new dynamics of forced migration in Latin America? • How do Latin American States respond to such humanitarian and political challenges, and how can their responses be strengthened in future? • What roles do civil society groups, inter-governmental bodies, and powerful North American States play in these processes • How does the Latin American model compare or interact with European and African models, and what lessons can be learnt for the future? • What are the resulting implications for States’ allocation of international responsibility for flows of refugees and displaced persons?
Alongside substantial field research, the project makes integral use of knowledge exchange activities in order to contribute to developing humanitarian policy and regional responses to address the challenges posed by the new dynamics of forced migration in Latin America.
9 THE INSTITUTE’S RESEARCH PORTFOLIO The Indigenous Peoples’ and Minority Rights Project provides a national INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ AND focal point for leading, facilitating and promoting policy-oriented MINORITY RIGHTS research into the promotion and protection of the rights of Indigenous DR CORINNE LENNOX AND peoples and national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. This DR DAMIEN SHORT project is led by the Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC), Dr Damien Short, and Associate Director Dr Corinne Lennox, and also draws on the support of a Steering Group of notable specialists in the fields of indigenous and minority rights protection, including Academic Friends of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Early in the academic year the Human Rights Consortium was delighted to collaborate with NGO ABColombia to hold a large-scale conference on mining and resource extraction in Colombia and Latin America more widely, with a particular focus on the impact on indigenous peoples in Latin America. We were delighted to welcome a number of indigenous peoples representing various communities affected by resource extractive activities, in keeping with the HRC’s commitment to include the perspectives of human rights defenders wherever possible.
In collaboration with the UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights, based at the University of Reading, the HRC hosted a half-day workshop in March 2013 on Current Research Directions in Minority Rights. This workshop brought together NGO actors, academics and research students, addressing a gap which currently exists between academic researchers and human rights practitioners. Discussions identified current gaps in existing research and ways in which civil society organizations use academic work in their own activities. There was considerable interest in continuing these short, focused dialogues between academics and practitioners in the future, and further workshops are planned for 2013-14. A second follow-up workshop, held at the University of Reading in June 2013, specifically explored Current Doctoral research on Minority Rights.
A similar half-day workshop on indigenous peoples’ rights was held in March 2013, with researchers and academics focusing particularly on the ways in which their research could feed into UN processes and how their work could be transformed into practical protocols which could be used by indigenous human rights defenders. It was agreed that, given intersections of important research areas such as protection of indigenous peoples’ lands, informal exchanges between researchers should continue.
Dr Corinne Lennox also advised the Tom Lantos Institute in Hungary to support a workshop on minority rights education, held in June 2013. A resulting academic publication and policy strategy is expected which will cover concepts, practice and ways forward for minority rights 3
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LGBTI RIGHTS The Human Rights Consortium has worked to support researchers DR CORINNE LENNOX and activists who are seeking to secure decriminalization of same-sex sexual relations on national and international levels. A key output of this project is Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change, edited by Dr. Corinne Lennox (ICwS) and Dr. Matthew Waites (University of Glasgow). This multiauthor publication is the first to focus on sexual orientation and gender identity in the Commonwealth and brings together country and thematic case studies from activists and academics. This work is also significant in being the first open-access book to be published by the School of Advanced Study and is thus accessible to any individual and organization that finds it useful for their work. The book was launched both in London and in Toronto, Canada, in collaboration with the Envisioning Global LGBT Rights project based at York University (Canada).
The Human Rights Consortium has initiated a series of interdisciplinary HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH human rights postgraduate research students’ conferences aimed at STUDENTS bringing together postgraduate students conducting human rights DR DAMIEN SHORT research from across the UK and beyond.
The conferences were initiated by Dr Damien Short, Director of the Human Rights Consortium, who recognized that there were few opportunities for students carrying out research on human rights themes to meet and discuss their work beyond departmental boundaries. The aim of the conferences is to foster an interdisciplinary understanding of human rights. Researchers are therefore able to strengthen their work by drawing on critiques and insights from disciplines beyond the department where they are ordinarily based.
These conferences allow researchers at the start of their academic career to develop networks, establish connections between their research and that of others, and work towards developing collaborations. In addition, they receive insight from established human rights academics who can provide feedback not only on the content of their papers
11 THE INSTITUTE’S RESEARCH PORTFOLIO but on their presentation, enabling early-career researchers to develop skills crucial for their future careers as researchers and teachers. Further, there is a strong focus on training early-career researchers, with panels devoted to topics such as academic publishing and how to collaborate with NGOs in order to ensure that human rights research has an impact in practice-based organisations.
A key indication of the need for such a forum for postgraduate researchers has been the continued positive response to calls for papers and the feedback received by the Human Rights Consortium, including requests to establish a network of postgraduate human rights researchers. Following on from the success of the conferences and in the light of such requests, the Human Rights Consortium will work to establish a network of postgraduate and early-career researchers in order to enable these researchers to continue to explore collaborations and develop networks useful for the interdisciplinary study of human rights.
The research conferences have travelled beyond London and have been hosted at the University of Essex’s Human Rights Centre. Recognising the need for regional interdisciplinary conferences in order to bring the benefits of the initiative to scholars beyond London and the South East, the Human Rights Consortium actively seeks to collaborate with various institutions across the UK to host future conferences.
The research conferences were among a range of activities established by the Human Rights Consortium to support early career researchers, including a workshop on Creative Campaigning which aimed to help researchers communicate their work to a wider, non-specialist audience. The Refugee Law Initiative, under Director Dr David Cantor, hosts and supports a network of Doctoral Affiliates working in the field of international refugee law. The Refugee Law Initiative also hosted a Postgraduate Workshop on Refugee Law for early career researchers to showcase their research and gain feedback from their peers and the wider research community.
Ruth First was a South African anti-apartheid activist, investigative RUTH FIRST DIGITISATION journalist, and scholar. She dedicated her life to the struggle against apartheid through activism, interracial solidarity work, and her PROJECT research and writing. She was exiled from South Africa in 1964 with her husband, prominent South African communist Joe Slovo, and their children. They moved to the UK, where Ruth became a Fellow at the University of Manchester and lectured at the University of Durham. In 1978, First and her family moved to Mozambique, where she took up a senior post at the University of Maputo but in 1982, whilst at work, Ruth was killed by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. 3 1 0 2
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The project’s final Advisory Board meeting, attended by First’s daughter, Gillian Slovo, and former Guardian associate editor, Victoria Brittan, recognised that the project had not only achieved its original aims, but had made additional progress.
While the project has been an enormous success, there are still important materials which need to be digitised in order to develop the website into a global resource, with a full and impressive representation of the archive material in Senate House. The team also hope to secure funding in order to provide digitisation training for two academics from South African partner institutions, whose contributions were vital to the success of the project. Although applications for such funding to the ESRC and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission were unsuccessful, the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust has pledged £3,000 to the project for further digitisation work. The ICWS would like to express its profound gratitude for this generous donation.
THE CONTEMPORARY The Institute is a key forum for promoting debate about the COMMONWEALTH contemporary commonwealth and the numerous challenges with which the organisation is faced. While we have no institutional political voice, we give the space to others, previously through the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau and latterly through the Commonwealth Opinion blog, providing specialised and in depth debate.
We began the year by hosting an event organised by The Round Table on whether reform to the Commonwealth was possible. Its public image clearly suffers from the contrast between its commitment to human rights and the domestic practice of many of its member states. Six sessions of hard-fought debate examined developments at the Perth CHOGM, the role of CMAG and the EPG report and highlighted a range of views: some identifying a crisis, others not, but all accepting that reform to the practice of commonwealth institutions can be painfully slow. Finding consensus on the way forward will be a difficult road. By February, we moved to examine different approaches to reforming anti-homosexuality laws in many Commonwealth member states, with Colin Robinson arguing that
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western NGOs and campaign groups do nothing to foster southern- based local and sub-regional solutions, whereas such groups should get behind Global South initiatives and push in the directions carved out by southern activists. As a respondent to this Opinion Piece, however, the Honorable Michael Kirby AC CMG argued that such an approach was flawed as such inaction in the face of human rights abuses is an affront to human dignity and that the world should not stay silent but should protest, as it did about Apartheid, to bring fundamental change. Such a diversity of views speaks to the important role the Institute plays in facilitating debate on key polemical issues.
We were fortunate to benefit from the powerful opinions of Sir Ronald Sanders who made a number of powerful arguments regarding the contemporary Commonwealth. From his assertion that a “Commonwealth free trade area is an idea born of nostalgia whose time has passed” to identifying “a clear moral case for reparations” from the UK to Caribbean nations for the dehumanisation, cruel treatment, abuse and injustice of enslavement, Sir Ronald Sanders has proved an influential and insightful speaker, and a skilled orator.
Another recurring theme of the Institute’s engagement with the contemporary Commonwealth has been the controversy around the 2013 CHOGM in Sir Lanka. This decision was deplored by Professor James Manor, who called for the meeting to be relocated “for the sake of human dignity”. Nevertheless the Institute drew up plans for a day-long conference that would include representatives of the Sri Lankan government, in the autumn of 2013, to hear both sides of the ongoing debate.
The Institute is determined to remain active in providing a forum for debating the contemporary Commonwealth. From Opinion Pieces on Margaret Thatcher and Apartheid Era South African, to the next Head of the Commonwealth, and from the impact of changing fuel economy policies to reconciliation in Rwanda, we provide scholarl insight into this unique and fascinating international institution. 3 1 0 2
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Thus far in the project, each of the four country teams has identified a set of policy initiatives to be studied, and field research is underway to analyse them. Attention is being paid to the political motivations and processes which led governments to undertake new initiatives, and to the policy processes that ensued. But researchers are also considering the implementation and impact of the various initiatives. The processes that unfolded in the four countries vary somewhat, although there are also broad similarities in many cases.
Eighteen researchers are at work in the project. They are based in the four countries being assessed as well as in Britain, Switzerland and Italy. Each country team includes a ‘scholar-practitioner’ from the country being studied – that is, a person who has been involved in the political/policy processes, but who also has formidable analytical capabilities and some detachment from those processes and from the governments that are involved.
The coordinator of the project is Professor James Manor of the School of Advanced Study [email: [email protected]].
15 RESEARCH PROJECTS LED BY INSTITUTE FELLOWS During the course of the year, Visiting Research Fellow, Frances POLITICAL ISLAM AND THE Harrison, completed a 50,000 word report on political Islam and the ELECTIONS IN BANGLADESH forthcoming elections in Bangladesh. Recent months have seen the ideological clash between secular Bengalis and Islamists spill onto the streets in what many now believe is a make-or-break struggle for the identity of the third largest Muslim country in the world.
Frances examined the ideological and political differences between the various Islamic parties, alliances and militant groups, with special focus on Jamaat-e-Islami. She arranged for many key documents to be translated into English, such as party membership guidebooks, oaths and personal report cards on which aspirant Jamaat members record daily how often they pray, recruit future members or study Islamic texts. Frances’ report also examined allegations about the extent of Jamaat infiltration of the country’s economic life, charting links in terms of shared directors and founders across different banks, hospitals and charitable foundations. She identified members of the party’s student wing, Chhatra Shibir, who run many of the country’s best-known coaching centres for securing admission to Bangladeshi and even international universities. A further section of the report considered Islamists’ use of social media and jihadi websites, including some influenced by the Yemeni cleric, Al Awlaki (now deceased).
This report looked not just at narrow political achievement of Islamic parties in elections but also at a creeping process of Islamisation, especially in the country’s education system. It collated all available information about the numbers of children in Bangladesh being educated in madrasa – state-sponsored and unregulated institutions (quomi). The study included a rare case study from inside a female quomi madrasa in Jessore where the girls are dressed from top to toe in black burqa and locked all day inside tiny rooms with little daylight, educated in order to be obedient mothers and housewives. Interestingly male and female students have almost reached parity in Bangladesh’s madrasa sector.
Another indicator of religious intolerance has been the number of attacks on religious minorities. The report gathered a comprehensive list of attacks on Ahmadiyya and Hindus, with the latter having experienced a worrying and significant number of assaults in recent times.
A final chapter of the report considered opinion from a range of newspaper editors, politicians, bureaucrats and academics in Dhaka on what might happen in the next six months in the run up to polls. The report considered whether it would be possible to reach agreement between the two main parties over the formation of an election time administration to oversee the polls; the likely outbreak of violence against religious minorities, especially in marginal seats; and the likelihood and consequences of a realignment and possible unifying of 3
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The post of the Emeka Anyoaku Chair in Commonwealth Studies was created by the Institute of Commonwealth -
Studies in 2005 in honour of Chief Emeka Anyaoku, who served as Secretary General of the Commonwealth 2 0 1 between 1990 and 2000. The post of Emeka Anyaoku Professorship was previously held by Professor James Manor 3 and Professor Richard Crook, who worked tirelessly promoting the Institute through celebrated research into politics, development and state-society relations in less developed countries. Upon Professor Manor’s retirement in 2012, the Institute adapted the post, creating the Emeka Anyoaku Visiting Chair of today. By doing so it was intended to enable the Institute to host a range of eminent academics across each academic year. This role, lasting for up to six months, contributes greatly to the scholarly activity of the Institute and, more broadly, to the intellectual life of the School of Advanced Study.
On January 19th 2013 the Institute was delighted to welcome Professor Joseph Ayee as the first Emeka Anyoaku Visiting Chair. At the time of his invitation, Professor Ayee was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. During his time at the School of Advanced Study, he pursued research pertaining to his interests in the politics of mining sector reform; democratic governance; public servants; and partisan politics. Professor Ayee took a very active role convening lectures and seminars to present his research to the wider community. Among the most notable of such events was a ground-breaking lecture held on 25 March 2012 titled, ‘The Developmental State Experiment in Africa: The Experiences of Ghana and South Africa’. Highlighting the role of the Institute at an international level Professor Ayee represented ICwS at the flagship J.B. Danquah Memorial Lecture series in Ghana, where he addressed the audience on the theme of leadership and the Ghanaian state today.
The most significant publication arising from Professor Ayee’s tenure will be Ghana: From Public Administration to Public Management. It demonstrates the ICWS’s continuing commitment to assisting scholars from the Commonwealths states in the production of key educational resources. It also demonstrates the the success of the ICWS’s commitment to recognise the need and provide the tools for the most significant research in Commonwealth member nations.
With the Institute keen to build upon the clear benefit to the academic community provided by the work of its first Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair, it will soon welcome Professor Eghosa E. Osaghae. Vice Chancellor at Igbenedion University, Nigeria’s premier private university since 2004, Professor Osaghae will conduct research into the foundations and workings of Nigerian federalism. With this appointment the academic profile and competitiveness of Professor Osaghae’s home institution will be boosted but most importantly the research insights, collaborations and linkages developed will be invaluable, projecting the work of the Institute and its relevance to modern-day Nigeria.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies will continue, through the Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair, to attract some of the most cutting edge research from internationally eminent figures, with the ultimate goal to establish an alumni network which will grow and develop along with the position itself.
17 Andrea Zielinski conducted dedicated website has been set up at des Relations Internationales extensive research in the www.mediareformlanka.com, which (http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail- Commonwealth Archives in provides access to the research and contribution&id=6247) as well as Cambridge and the archives of analysis developed by the project. the publication of eight articles the Imperial War Musuem. She An edited volume of research papers and an edited book (From Rivalry also visited Gibraltar to conduct and essays will be published by Sage to Partnership: New Approaches to in-country research. In terms in 2014. the Challenges of Africa, Ashgate, of publications her book about Aldershot, 2011). Professor Religious Fundamentalisms was In December 2012, an article by Cumming’s other publications over published in January. Furthermore David Page on Language, Nationhood this period related to France’s she will publish two articles in and Diaspora at the BBC Urdu Service policies on aid and Africa. The Round Table the first of which 1940-2010 was published in Diasporas is about the recent conflict in and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Dr Harshan Kumarasingham’s Gibraltar titled Beyond the Border: Zones at the BBC World Service latest book A Political Legacy Gibraltar within the process of (1932-2010), a volume edited by of the British Empire - Power Decolonisation (November) and Marie Gillespie and Alban Webb and and the Parliamentary System second on When Human Rights published by Routledge on behalf of in Post-Colonial India and Sri meet Local Traditions (March). the ESRC. Lanka was launched by the Institute’s Director, Professor Arunima Datta was a Visiting In January 2013, an article by David Philip Murphy, and constitutional Fellow between May-August, 2012. Page on Afghanistan and the Millenium expert Professor Vernon Bogdanor She presented her preliminary Development Goals was published in November 2012 following a day research findings in her paper in a volume entitled Inherit the long seminar on decolonisation entitled, Crimes of Passion or Signs Earth: Millenium Development Goals hosted by the Institute and King’s of Resistance: Indian women and - So Near and Yet So Far, edited by College London. their social lives on colonial Malay Barbara Butler and published by CTB plantations at the Institute of (Churches Together in Britain and Dr Kumarasingham continued his Commonwealth Studies Research Ireland). work on constitutional and political Seminar on 22 May, 2012. During history of decolonisation and state- her fellowship she made use of Professor Gordon Cumming building in the Commonwealth. the National Archives in Kew, the of Cardiff University was a visiting He gaves lectures and papers British Library and resources at fellow in 2012-13. During this time, on his research including a panel the Josephine Butler collection at he produced an article on the with Professor Murphy and Dr London Metropolitan University evolving relationship between the Peter Catterall on Monarchy which contributed to the progress the UK/ the Commonwealth and the and the British Commonwealth at of her research on the social history European Community/ Union (The the British Scholar Conference of Indian coolie women in colonial United Kingdom over the Lomé Years: in Edinburgh in June 2012 and Malaya. The resources gathered A Constructive partner in Europe? the Legacy of Empire conference during her fellowship helped her Revue Francaise de Civilisation in May 2013 co-hosted by the not only in her dissertation but also Britannique 18 (1), 2013, pp. 147-165). Institute and the Overseas Service helped her guest lectures at the He also co-authored an article on Pensioners’ Association. The Royal National University of Singapore the changing nature of Britain’s Historical Society and Cambridge and contributed to the various engagement in Africa from the time University Press have engaged Dr conferences papers she presented of decolonisation to the present day Kumarasingham to edit the papers, thereafter at Cornell University, (Britain and Africa: The Search for New held by the Institute in Senate Brown University, Sheffield Hallam Forms of Engagement, Revue Française House Library, of Sir Ivor Jennings University and Oxford University de la Civilisation Britannique, vol (1903-1965) who was a leading during 2012-2013. XVIII, no 2, 2013, pp 166-184). constitutional scholar and actively This latter research arose out of a advised numerous governments
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A research associate in Sri Lanka. A id/1574/) and the Institut Français The Appeal of Dominion Status during 18 A the Decolonisation of India, Pakistan the United Kingdom to contribute to Kenya, in his capacity as Research n n and Ceylon, Transactions of the Royal the Gambia Biography Project. Each Professor. u a l
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579-596, The Jewel of the East yet has Throughout the year Jeggan has been book chapters; peer reviews of 2 0 1
its Flaws – The Deceptive Tranquillity preoccupied with completing his manuscripts of book and journal 3 surrounding Sri Lankan Independence, own input on The Very Reverend J. articles; and informal reviews of Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and C. Faye whilst also coordinating and post-graduate dissertations. Jeggan Comparative Politics, Working Paper managing the project as a whole. This continues to be the General Editor No. 72, June 2013 and (co-authored pioneering volume on Rev. Faye has of the Africa in Development with John Power) Constrained now been completed and submitted Series, Peter Lang International Parliamentarism in New Zealand, to the publishers. Jeggan is also Academic Publishers, Oxford, Commonwealth and Comparative responsible for editing a book of England. Politics, Vol. 51, Issue 2, 2013, pp shorter versions of the same group 234-253. From October 2013 Dr of leaders. During the autumn of 2012 John Kumarasingham will be Smuts Visiting Cowley worked on the production Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at Besides this project Jeggan continued of a CD representing the 1912 the University of Cambridge. to research on regional cooperation instrumental recordings by Lovey’s and integration in Africa, particularly Trinidad String Band, which in 2002 Dr Howard Jones visited India in West African and Senegambian were selected for conservation January 2013 to up-date his records integration. During the reporting by the National Recording on informal finance and village period, book chapters and essays Preservation Board of the Library money-lending. He continued to were published on aspects of the of Congress. The CD release, by work on his British Academy Funded subject and on general development Bear Family Records in Germany research on livelihood diversification issues in Africa. (BCD 16057 AH), commemorates and migration, and submitted his final the 100th anniversary of Lovey’s report on this project. He presented The second category of activities are performances before the recording a paper with the title A Longitudinal of an outreach nature, i.e., reaching horn and the digipac booklet Study of Stratification and Mobility in a out to regional and continental includes John’s essay Trinidad String Rajasthan Village in the Conference institutions in Africa to participate Bands: from slavery to the recording New Horizons on Stratification, Mobility in their scientific programmes and studio. In the same month as the and Inequality at The University of thereby contribute to institutional CD release (November) John Queensland, Australia, in July. He growth. In this regard, Jeggan gave a revised version of his paper gave a Seminar on the history of Senghor is engaged in developing a on Stokowski’s South American rural finance and microfinance at the three-year Strategic Plan (2014-2017) Adventure – 1940 for the Spanish, University of Reading. He completed for the Cross-Border Cooperation Portuguese and Latin American his final year as Chair of the Programme of the Economic Studies department, King’s College Consortium Advisory Group (CAG) Community of West African States London. of the DFID funded Cross-Cutting (ECOWAS). He also serves as lead Disability Research Programme, led researcher for a book project titled For much of 2013, John has been by the Leonard Cheshire Disability ECOWAS: Forty Years of Shared finalising the proofs of his essay and Inclusive Development Centre, Challenges and Progress (Abuja, Mascarade, biguine and the bal nègre University College London (UCL). Nigeria). Likewise, Jeggan delivered and the discographical work with He also continued to serve as a two lectures at a seminar organized which this will be published. In Trustee for Concern Worldwide UK, by the West Africa Institute for April he travelled to Trinidad for an international NGO focussing on Regional Integration (Praia, Cape the BOCAS Literary Festival, held relief and development programmes Verde) in Lome, Togo; the subjects at the National Library of Trinidad in Africa, Asia and The Caribbean. of the lectures were Institutions and and Tobago, Port of Spain. Here Regional Integration and Senegambian he gave a presentation on the Dr Jeggan Senghor’s activities Integration: Lessons of Experience. work entailed in the preparation during the during the 2012-2013 of the Lovey’s Trinidad String reporting period can be put into Related to this is Jeggan’s substantive Band CD, following which he three categories. Firstly research inputs to the work of the Institute gave a paper on The Evolution and publications. In September 2011 for Regional Integration and of Carnival in Martinique for the Jeggan set up a team of researchers Development of the Catholic Postgraduate Program in Cultural in The Gambia, the United States and University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Studies, Department of Literary, 19 Cultural and Communication Commonwealth at the ICS library on the Commonwealth Opinions Studies, The University of the collection held at the Senate House site and contributed four articles West Indies, St. Augustine. After library. and three books reviews to the undertaking research in Trinidad, Royal African Society’s African almost immediately on his return During his fellowship, Dr Fernando Arguments site on aspects of to the UK, John contributed his attended several ICS seminars and media coverage of Africa, poaching survey Numberless Are The Sands On also interacted with the academic in Africa, Africa’s porous borders The Seashore: “The Real Bahamas” staff and other ICS Research Fellows. and Chinese African relations. and the field recording experience The ICS provided a useful forum His book, Radio Propaganda and (1935-1965)’ to the Commonwealth for an exchange of academic ideas the Broadcasting of Hatred was Research Seminar series of the and knowledge. Dr Fernando is published in October 2012; a work Institute. particularly grateful to Professor on the impact of Orson Welles’s Phillip Murphy, the ICS Director, dramatization of War of the Worlds He is currently working on an essay who facilitated this visiting research containing a chapter by him on the with Professor Ingrid Kummels fellowship and showed much personal use of the dramatization as a radio of the Freie Universität Berlin kindness and warm hospitality training tool will be published in on Caribbean Diasporic Culture during his attachment with the ICS. Autumn 2013. and Politics in the Jazz Age to be Dr Fernando is also grateful to published next year in an anthology the assistance of the ICS staff and During the period, Keith has given devoted to culture and politics in particularly Ms Alegria Perez. TV interviews on the conflict in the the Atlantic diaspora 1800-2010. Congo, Kenya’s elections and South Dr Fernando also conducted research Africa’s political developments to Associate Professor Dr Joseph M. at the National Archives of Britain the London-based African news Fernando from the Department in Kew which hold the primary channel Arise TV, and taken part of History at the University of constitutional documents related in radio interviews for the BBC Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to the Malayan constitution and the World Service and Colourful was a visiting Research Fellow at library of the School of Oriental and FM. He has continued to teach the Institute of Commonwealth African Studies, University of London, Humanitarian Communications Studies, School of Advanced Study, during his research fellowship at the in both the School of Politics University of London, from 1 ICS. and International Relations and February to 30 September, 2013, as the Centre for Journalism at the part of his sabbatical leave research Keith Somerville’s term as a University of Kent. He was also program from his university. Senior Research Fellow commenced research supervisor for a visiting in January 2013 and during the Cameroonian fellow at the Reuters During his fellowship at the Institute year his work was concentrated Institute for the Study of Journalism of Commonwealth Studies, Dr mainly on researching and writing a at the University of Oxford and Fernando conducted research on contemporary history of Africa since presented a paper at the Institute the influence of the Commonwealth 1970 for Wiley-Blackwell – looking on media developments in Kenya constitutions on the framing of the in detail at the interplay between and Malawi. Malayan Independence Constitution structure and agency in the political, between 1955 and 1956 by the economic and social history of Africa During the year Dr Mandy Reid constitutional commission. in the last five decades. His other Banton’s work has concentrated These included the influence of areas of research include South on an examination of the the constitutions of India, Pakistan, African radio propaganda during background to the Foreign and Ceylon and British constitutional the apartheid era and the linkages Commonwealth Office ‘migrated principles on the drafting of the between insurgency, organized archive’ (otherwise known as the Malayan constitution. crime and poaching in Africa. He Hanslope Disclosure) currently presented a paper on South African in progress of transfer to the Dr Fernando consulted in particular radio propaganda and the UDI UK National Archives. She gave
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University College London. During The San, the Botswana State, and She has also been interviewed by 3 2012-13 she was a member of the International Community in Thee two Community Radio Stations, in the Institute for the Study of the Handbook of Indigenous Peoples’ Sittingbourne and Northampton Americas Advisory Council. Rights, Short, D., Lennox C., and at length on the Pan-African (eds), London: Routledge, 2012; (2) station and on Radio Regent in the Dr. Maria Sapignoli in 2012-2013 Development and Dispossession: Land USA. continued her research and Reform in Botswana, Is Africa for Sale? writing relating to indigenous Positioning the State, Land and Society in Martin Plaut began work on peoples’ rights and minorities in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in a book considering the events Southern Africa and at the United Africa, Sandra Evers, Caroline Seagle, surrounding the Union of South Nations. Since January 2013, she and Froukje Krijten, eds. Leiden, Africa in 1910, which played a has been a research fellow at the Boston, and Tokyo: Brill Academic major part in the formation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Publishers, 2013 (with Robert K. African National Congress. The Anthropology, Department of Law Hitchcock), and Indigenous Peoples delegation that came to Britain in and Anthropology in Germany. In in Southern Africa in The Round 1909 campaigning for a non-racial 2012 and 2013, she attended several Table Special Issue on Indigenous franchise for the new country was conferences such as the following: Peoples, 102(4):355-365 (with finally unsuccessful, but it forced all at the University of Essex where Robert K. Hitchcock). She also has the political parties to confront the she presented two papers one on several papers out for review, one in question of entrenching racism in indigenous peoples and the question Anthropological Forum, a second in an Imperial constitution. Only the of self-determination and the other Botswana Notes and Records, and a British Labour Party resisted this on indigenous peoples’ knowledge, third in African Study Monographs. to the end of the debate in the sustainability and resilience. (2) She is in the process of completing a House of Commons, helping shape She served as a discussant at the book provisionally titled Local Power the Party’s policy towards Africa. University of Botswana’s workshop through Globalised Indigenous The discussions also involved on local communities and the state in Identities: The San, the State, and the Gandhi, who was in London at this Africa, Botswana’s exceptionalism’ International Community, that will be time, negotiating with the British (3) In November 2012, she published in the Human Rights series, authorities and with Smuts. Martin’s presented a paper at the 111th School of Advanced Study, London. work investigates the interplay of annual meeting of the American these forces and personalities and Anthropological Association in San Marika Sherwood delivered talks at included spending nearly three Francisco titled Peoples, Politics and a variety of institutions/organisations months in South Africa in early Places: Asserting Local Power through that include Manchester Museum; the 2013 working in the archives in Globalized Indigenous Identities. (4) Maidstone and Faversham Libraries; Cape Town and Grahamstown. In March 2013, she participated in the Devon Development Education Martin Plaut also remained Writer a workshop held at the School of - Multi-coloured History program in Residence at the Centre for Advanced Study in London on Land at Exeter; the Faversham History African Studies, at the University Rights, Mines and Indigenous Peoples Society; Northampton History of Cape Town, during which time where she brought her knowledge Society; and the CPP branch. She he gave a seminar on land holdings of having worked on mining and continued to organise the monthly in Africa. indigenous peoples in Botswana. (5) seminars on Black British History in In June, 2013 she presented a paper Senate House, which are usually well A Menu for Change was published titled Indigenousness in Translation: attended. in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Contested Concepts of Indigeneity National Library of South Africa and Marginality in Botswana (Law In addition she arranged a meeting (67, 2 April-June 2013). He has also and Society Conference, Boston, with Michael Gove’s Special Assistant recently submitted another article Massachusetts). (6) And she also on School Curriculum changes to the South African Historical presented a paper at the European and had a subsequent meeting at Journal with Catherine Corder, African Studies Association the Department of Education. She which considers the relationship meetings in Lisbon entitled In continues to be involved on the issue between Gandhi and the first ANC
21 president, John Dube, through session is due to be held in Paris this of Negro Revolt for the Duke the letters of a little known South autumn. University Press republications African woman, Betty Molteno. of his works under the general More recently he has published an Mélanie Torrent also organised a editorship of Robert A. Hill, his article with the Review of African one-day international conference literary executor. Political Economy: How unstable is in Paris on 11 January 2013: Empire the Horn of Africa? (Volume 40, Issue Overcome? British Decolonisation and Peter has also acted as one of the 136, 2013). the Contest for New World Orders. historical advisors to the Windrush She is working on another one-day Foundation Liberation 1838 project Martin has also been a commentator conference, to be held in Paris on 22 which involves exhibitions as well on the BBC, al Jazeera and Monocle November: Living and Writing the Sri as conferences. Radio, as well as contributing Lankan Civil War, with Roma Tearne regularly to the New Statesman on and Frances Harrison as the keynote The long revision of Donald Wood’s a range of topics. As a member of speakers. Mélanie was also invited last book on British Berbice is Chatham House he has participated to give papers at the Universities nearing completion and Peter has in and chaired discussions on of Strasbourg (December), Lille continued to review books and contemporary African issues. III (January) and Tours (February) peer-review articles. In addition he in connection with her work on has provided considerable support Mélanie Torrent was involved in the end of empires in West Africa. to the writers of three doctoral the organisation of an international She also edited a special issue of theses. collaborative project on the the Revue Française de Civilisation influence of the former European Britannique on British Foreign Policy Richard Bourne is continuing empires on contemporary EU policy in Africa since 1957 (http://www. his research on Nigerian history, making, led by the ICWS. Following cercles.com/rfcb/rfcb18-2/18-2. 1914-2014, and made a first research a two-day visit to Brussels in late htm), with contributions in French visit in May, 2013, when he met 2012 with Richard Bourne, a series and English. She also co-edited a another fellow, Dr Jeggan Senghor, of meetings was held at the ICWS special issue of the Cahiers Charles at the university guest house, to plan and coordinate research V on Le Commonwealth des Nations Ibadan; he conducted interviews involving British, French, Spanish en mutation: décolonisations, in Lagos, Ibadan, Ado Ekiti and and Portuguese institutions, as well globalisation et gouvernance. In Abuja and consulted the Nigerian as key partners outside Europe. All 2012/13, Mélanie continued her National Archives, Ibadan; in key institutions in Brussels, including research into Franco-British relations London he studied Commonwealth the Organisation Internationale at the end of empire, focusing Secretariat files on the Nigerian de la Francophonie and the ACP, particularly on cultural diplomacy civil war. With Dr Melanie Torrent have declared a clear interest in in West Africa and on the relations he visited a number of European the project, and it is hoped that between anti-colonial movements Commission and other persons securing funding will lead to a first across the Channel and across the in Brussels in December 2012, in conference in Brussels, involving colonial divides. connection with the international academics and practitioners, with research project on impacts follow-up events in all partner Peter Fraser continued to work on of different colonial heritages academic institutions. the intellectual history of the British on contemporary European Caribbean from the late nineteenth policymaking; Commission figures Two further events were held century to the twentieth century expressed lively interest, but in the occasional seminar series with a particular focus on the explained that it would be difficult The Commonwealth in the World: neglected Trinidad-born polymath to obtain Commission funding as Resistance, Governance and Change. Arnold Hamilton Maloney. He this project may conflict with an In Paris in November 2012, Mélanie presented a seminar paper to ICwS ideology of European integration. Torrent welcomed Leslie James on him and wrote a short biography (LSE), who presented her latest for the Dictionary of Caribbean and He wrote an Opinion Piece for
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23 High Commission, October 2012), at the BASAS 2013 conference held Politics (accepted publication Portuguese Cultural Symbols in Leeds. He will be presenting a forthcoming 2013). in Asia (The Anglo-Portuguese paper on Media dilemmas in South Society, Canning House, Belgrave Asia – the case of Sri Lanka at the He has reviewed an article: Square, London, October 2012), annual conference of the American A Musical Journey: Portuguese Association of South Asian Studies at Left Parties in Governments by Ballads, Kaffrinhas and Bailas (The Madison Wisconsin in October 2013. Jonathan Olsen, Michael Koß and Association of Sri Lanka Accountants Dan Hough. Basingstoke: Palgrave Worldwide & The Association of He has chaired further extended Macmillan. 207pp, Political Studies Sri Lankan Chartered Accountants seminars organised by The Review, Volume 11, Issue 2, May in the United Kingdom, Sutton, Democracy Forum. The seminars 2013, p. 279 September 2012). have involved leading British academics and visiting key speakers He presented papers at the Dr de Silva was interviewed by from the USA, Pakistan and India. following conferences: The Greek Public Radio International (USA) He has collaborated with Frances Crisis. Parties, Institutions, Politics, for a programme on Africa in South Harrison, Visiting Fellow at the ICwS Ideologies. Athens 14-15 January Asia (April 2013). in the preparation of her monograph 2013 organised by the Centre on Islamic politics in Bangladesh, for Political Research of Panteion Dr. William Crawley, as co- due to be launched in September University; The evolution of director with Dr David Page of the 2013. The project has been jointly nationalisms in Cyprus, Home of project on Media Law and Policy in sponsored by the monthly news Cooperation, Saturday 27 April Sri Lanka, supported by the Ford journal Asian Affairs (published in 2013, Nicosia; and the 7th ECPR Foundation, completed the project New Delhi) and the Institute of General Conference, Sciences Po with the setting up in October Commonwealth Studies. Bordeaux, 4-7 September 2013. 2012 of a dedicated website www. mediareformlanka.com. The aim Yiannos Katsourides co-edited His current research includes has been to provide authoritative (with G. Georgis) a volume titled The the extreme right in Cyprus, documentation and expert analysis Cypriot Left in the First Period of British Euroscepticism in Cyprus politics, of issues relating to the reform of Colonialism 1878-1941: Emergence, political conflicts in Cyprus during media policy and law in Sri Lanka, Composition, Development, that was the 1940s and 1950s and communist for students of the media in Sri published by Taksideftis Publications model party organisation. Lankan universities and elsewhere in Athens in July 2013 [in Greek]. in the region, and for people He is also in the process of finalising He also teaches part-time classes practically engaged in the media or his book entitled: The History of the at the University of Cyprus. affected by media policy in Sri Lanka Communist Party in Cyprus: Colonialism, civil society. The principal research Class and the Cypriot Left, that will be associate in Sri Lanka Ms Kishali published by I.B. Tauris Publications Pinto- Jayawardena who is Deputy early in 2014. Director of the Law and Society Trust based in Colombo, has been in His recent publications include: close touch with colleagues in India Political Parties and Trade Unions to consult and compare on current in Cyprus’ GreeSE Paper No. 74, practice in the field of media training Hellenic Observatory Papers on and education. A book based on the Greece and Southeast Europe, research materials on the website Hellenic Observatory, European was published in Sinhalese in 2012. Institute, September 2013. An edited volume on Media Reform Determinants of Extreme Right in Sri Lanka is in preparation and Reappearance in Cyprus: the National 3
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24 Annual Report 2012 - 2013 25 EVENTS Seminar Series Seminar Seminar Series Seminar Seminar Series Seminar Seminar Series Seminar Peter Lyon MemorialPeter Lyon Lecture - The Commonwealth and China: Protecting Values, Containing the Dragon? AfricaChina in The Political Dynamics of Large-Scale land deals in Ethiopia: Experience of the Gambella Regional State Political Actors in Colonial Mediterranean: Cyprus and Malta compared The Developmental State Experiment in Africa: The Experiences of Ghana and South Africa China 2013: What next? China 2013: Migration across the Oceanic Diasporas Worlds: & Discourses theLondon ANC, 1909: the Labour Party and the Indian Congress after independence Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series: The Queen and religion: Defender of Faiths? The Ringtone and the Africa Drum: West on the Edge Lunchtime Public Seminar: Reparations and Legacies of British OwnershipSlave African diasporaimmediately in Asia:and Cultural Survivals,before territories Codes & Signifiers colonial in Service Civil the of LocalisationSeminar: Witness OSPA and ICwS Special briefing on Sri Lanka DipuMedia Moni, briefing Foreign by MinisterDr. of Bangladesh Public Seminar: Legacies of Fanon ‘A song about imperialism:‘A Africa as a text’ entrepreneur Arab perspectives on efforts Western to promote democratic reform in the Arab world The Commonwealth & election monitoring: the Zimbabwe success story? An exemplary life: Arnold Hamilton intellectual Maloney and Trinidadian history Understanding : His in Leonard Decolonization Role Woolf Treating the Commonwealth as a significant agent in the contemporary world - reflections of a serial Malaysia Fifty: at The Commonwealth Foreign Policy in Malaysia’s Protectorate: theVeiled UntoldUnveilingThe StoriesBritish of Labourers CriminalsandEgypt, in 1882-1922 Exploring W. African Worlds: “Agay the Salt Carrier” (1831) by Mrs by Bowdich (Lee) theExploring African Salt “Agay Carrier” Worlds: W. (1831) What is the Institute of Commonwealth Studies? Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 Black seamen in the century 18th World War II: War Colonies & ColonialsWorld The Caribbean in Sepia: A History in Photographs 1840-1900 Racism, heterophobia and the structural impact of South Asian doctors on the development of British General - c.1983) Practice (c.1948 African Americans in Britain 1850-1865 of Anti-SlaveryA Wall - Frederick Fire Douglass in Britain. The 1980s - Black art and socio-politics Belongings Black history on the streets of London: A virtual walk through 5 different parts of the city, bringing the past to doorstep your sector The historyof thePan-African ReparationsMovement in theUK as an African and African Diaspora human and peoples’ rights social movement post-16 the educatorsinblack experience of the of studiesrights:casehuman basic of defencethe and Unions The Black Abolitionists of the eighteenth century: Africans in Britain’s resistance to slavery and inequality
15. 16. 12. 13. 14. 9. 10. 11. 7. 8. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 10. Other Events 8. 9. 5. 6. 7. 3. 4. Commonwealth Research 1. 2. 3. 4. Black and Asian Britain 1. 2. 6. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. Black Britain 2. 3. Human Rightsin Britain 1. INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES 26 Annual Report 2012 - 2013 4. 3. 2. 1. Law Refugee 3rd International INITIATIVE LAW REFUGEE 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. RIGHTSHUMAN CONSORTIUM 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. 30. 29. 28. 27. 26. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. 19. 18. 17. EVENTS
Legal Change from the Bottom Up: The Development of Gender Asylum Jurisprudence in the United States United the in Jurisprudence Asylum Gender of Development The Up: Bottom from the Change Legal Regime Protection International the to Challenges and Trafficking Human Law: Refugee of Limits The Perspective Systemic A Law: and Luxembourg Rights Human and Strasbourg Kingdom, United the in Making Law Decision Asylum Application: National and Standards International Refugee between Relations The for Struggles Commonwealth: The in Identity Gender and Change and Orientation Decriminalisation Sexual Rights, Human of Launch 2012 Festival Bloomsbury conference Students’ Research Rights Human term Spring conference: Students’ Research Rights Human Workshop Campaigning Creative heritage their defending miners Afro-Colombian Gold: Suarez Screening: Film Studies Commonwealth of Institute at the Studies PhD aPhD: to Rights Human in your MA Converting 2013:China next? What Rights Indigenous of Question the and Imperialism, Entrepreneurial J.C Byrne, launch Journal Rights Human of Sociology The of People on Experts of Group Working UN the African Descent. with consultation education: to right the on Roundtable Myanmar in Rights Human Building of Pains Joys and The From Scratch: Starting Responses States and laws Special Violence, Caste Combating future? Britain’s present Australia’s is activities: gas unconventional to resistance Social drill? to A license Memoir ACommonwealth Ring, the In Talk Launch: Book and Perspectives Global and Regional New Struggles. Liberation African Southern Launch: Book Film on Ocean Indian the in Slavery of on from - Film: & a Transmission Perspective Slavery Diaspora The History Global African of Heritage Cultural onFilm Brazil in Slavery African Memorialising - Perspective Global a from Diaspora African The & Slavery Film: on History Film on Visible Slavery African Making in History on Film: Slavery & The African Diaspora from a Global Perspective - Silences & Taboos: Governance to Ethical from Liberation Dilemmas Africa South Secrets: and Songs Territories Focus in Overseas The Launch: Talk/Book ICwS WoolfLeonard Symposium Empire’ of Legacy ‘The on Conference empire of legacies the and diversity Heritage, Power Constituent and Legitimacy Democratic Caribbean: Commonwealth the and Reform Constitutional Seminar Witness Cara In-House Cyprus of Republic the in Institutions Political Memory of Conflicts Conflict, of Memories 2013 its and Commonwealth the will role what play? Summit Lanka: Sri in solution political a and justice truth, Towards possible? reform –is crisis in Commonwealth The Workshop Decolonization Workshop Decolonization Workshop Transnational Education Data Credible Preserving and Accessing on Workshop Countries Commonwealth in Policy Diaspora Workshop [ADAN-UK] Network-UK Academic Diaspora African and ICWS Seminar Series Annual Report 2012 - 2013 27 EVENTS Seminar Series Seminar Seminar Series Seminar Conference: a paradigm A Liberal shift Tide: Towards in Latin American Migration and asylum policy-making? Refugee Law Initiative Doctoral AffiliatesPostgraduate WorkshopRefugee on Law Treating Treating Like Cases Alike in Refugee Law Adjudication: The Troubling Lack of Consistency in RefugeeAdjudication Within and Across StateStatus Parties to International Refugee Rights Instruments Fast Track AsylumFast Processes: Track UK and Canadian Perspectives Deterrence through Detention: TheImplications Asylum for in Canada and the UK The Cruellest Cut? Eliminating Legal Representation Asylum-Seekers from in the UK and Canada Whither Refugee Protection in the Reform of Canadian and British Asylum Systems? Decision-makers Evidence Psychological and and Refugee IntegrationTrauma Psychology and Asylum-seeking Children Trauma and CredibilityTrauma The Right to Asylum in the Practice of Latin American and African States
Other Events 1. 2. 5. 2. 3. 4. The Challenge Change: for Confronting Asylum Law and Practice in the UK and Canada 1. 2. 3. 4. Refugee Protection PsychologyRefugee and 1. 5. 28 Annual Report 2012 - 2013 STATEMENTFINANCIAL Total Income Consultancy Income Consultancy Rent Receivable Non Pay Recoveries Income Events / Cataloging Digitisation Academic fees Tuition Admin Charges Fees Up Writing Tuition Fees Grants &Contracts Grants Research Fellowships TrainingResearch Income Income & Scholarships Bursaries Grants Events Grants Publications Grants Revenue HEFCE Academic Staff and secondments Staff Academic Income Internal Divisions) (between Inc Internal Division) IncInternal (Within allocation) rental (Strategic Inc Internal Charge) IncInternal (Service Finance income releases Credit Balance VATInput Release Endowment income Endowment Income Income Operating Other Project Income Publications Sales Income Courier and Packing Postage FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2011 FOR FINANCIAL -2012 2012 AND -2013 2012-13 Actual Actual (1,016,646) (243,975) (640,138) (264,512) (247,075) (307,861) £ (24,268) (38,250) (34,343) (38,250) (64,743) (25,764) (26,016) (11,080) 427,663 (37,122) (6,000) (3,050) (4,636) (2,426) (1,000) (2,173) (1,700) (2,100) (1,725) (2,150) (1,214) (1,198) (500) (24) 0 0 0 Accounts £ 2011-12 (889,650) (284,387) (284,521) (335,213) (331,293) (108,914) (139,158) (24,077) (25,966) (23,951) (82,731) (82,731) (20,512) (24,074) (17,000) 428,106 (2,960) (3,000) (9,000) (2,209) (3,930) (2,670) 45,832 (1,250) (9,732) (5,746) (93) (14) (3) 0 0 0 0 Annual Report 2012 - 2013 29 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 79 90 212 167 100 720 243 567 222 468 500 864 1,171 2,711 2,190 1,702 2,783 1,627 9,024 1,408 2,467 1,948 2,050 2,653 40,140 26,731 81,346 14,630 18,273 19,250 16,892 15,350 42,551 536,273 0 0 0 14 30 68 141 475 153 165 347 526 526 723 503 222 1,122 1,515 3,315 2,619 2,819 9,478 1,689 4,482 4,231 2,992 2,366 5,296 11,794 82,751 12,025 18,001 16,623 15,650 39,872 14,927 60,783 10,000 18,000 38,301 85,608 65,683 528,941 FINANCIAL STATEMENT Photocopying Services Printing Stationery Publicity Goods Promotional Equipment Leasing Costs Telephones Catering Hospitality & Subsistence Travel IT ConsumablesIT ExpenditureIT Costs Administration Other Equipment Library Expenditure IT Support Services Equipment IT Software Licences Digitisation Senate by House Library Study Materials expenses Website Design Costs Bought in Teaching in Bought Examiners Fees Fellowship Fees Production Publication ExpenditureAcademic Ceremonies Expenses Prizes Colleges to Payments Hardship Grants Visiting Fellows Professional Fees Professional Estates Expenditure ConferenceSeminar & Expenditure Bursaries Scholarships & Staff costs Consultants Fees Professional Fees Research assistant fees & expenses Admin & Library Staff (Academic Grade) Clerical Staff Staff Fees Training 30 Annual Report 2012 - 2013 STATEMENTFINANCIAL Operating Operating Surplus/(Deficit) Total Expenditure Central & Cross Charges &Cross Central Office) (SAS Central Recharge Internal Subs) (Internal Exp Internal Divisions) (between Exp Internal (Network) Charges Internal Bookings) Room (Central Exp Internal (Service) Charges Internal (Central) Charges Internal Finance Expenditure Debts Bad Admin Expenditure Attendance Conference Subscriptions Fees Licence Copyright ChargesCourier Postage 1,011,596 104,539 195,779 36,462 24,400 69,492 12,904 15,273 15,273 24,011 17,375 11,135 5,051 2,074 225 198 97 0 878,004 189,577 72,222 23,430 44,591 24,935 13,265 81,926 11,646 11,135 7,343 2,728 7,343 483 89 0 0 0 Annual Report 2012 - 2013 31 Research Students THE INSTITUTE’SSTUDENT BODY
The Effects WTO Obligations of Jamaica’s on the Jamaican Agricultural Sector Supervisor(s): James Manor Patrice Laird-Grant Manette Kaisershot Banking human rights violations: a policy response to banks’ in role human rights issues Supervisor(s): Damien Short Unmasking the North American Holocaust: An Analysis of the Ongoing Genocide of Native North Americans. Supervisor(s): Damien Short Supervisor(s): Corinne Lennox/Damien Short Jennifer Huseman Karen Hunte The Political Socialisation of The British Caribbean Population Kiran Hassan Media in post Musharraf Pakistan: Democracy, identity, agency and resistance Supervisor(s): James Manor Debacle? HollandSupervisor(s): Rob Georgia Dimari Regional DisputeConflict The over Cyprus,Greek-Turkish Diplomacy 1970-1974: or Interlocking DomesticPolicy Nicholas Connolly Human Rights: Forcing the Corporate Hand Supervisor(s): Damien Short Readings of Colonial Insurgency: the British 1955-1959 media and EOKA ‘Terrorism’, HollandSupervisor(s): Rob Supervisor(s): James Manor Eleni Christou Ratanasiri Chotvitayakul Policy MakingInformation in India’s Technology Stefania Barichello Refugee protection and responsibility sharing in Latin America: the Mexico Plan of Action during 2004-2014 Supervisor(s): David Cantor/Philip Murphy of expertise development’ for Ruth CraggsSupervisor(s): Philip Murphy/Dr. Matthew Battey ‘Placing knowledge in a decolonizing world: The Commonwealth CooperationFund for Technical and the histories Abused Children Supervisor(s): Damien Short Mariya Ali Impact of Islamic Law on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Child: the Plight of Sexually Melina Agathangelou Melina ‘Cyprusand the European Union: lobbyingand the politics of accession, 1990-2004’. Holland Rob Supervisor(s): 32 Annual Report 2012 - 2013 Students Research BODY STUDENT INSTITUTE’S THE Manor Supervisor(s): James Reform. Economic and Transition the Social of Period During China in Rights Human and Centralisation between Relationship The XuJing Supervisor(s): Rob Holland 1973-1980 Cyprus, Concerning Policy Foreign American and Britain Varnava Marilena Holt Chiriyan/Maria Supervisor(s): James Lebanon. and Iraq to Reference Special with East Middle the in Development Democratic of Feasibility The TaqiAbess Murphy Lennox/Philip Supervisor(s): Corinne Sudan South and Ethiopia Kenya, of case - the Africa in rights land communities’ indigenous faces that reality legal - the Deplorable Sozi Connie Supervisor(s): Rob Holland the in World1970s Influence British Southam Andrew Murphy Supervisor(s): Philip 1986-2009 Region, Lakes Great the in Uganda’s of interventions study Acase intervene. to right the to non-intervention from transition a (AU): Union African the to (AOU) Unity African of Organisation the From Rukwengye Charles Lennox Supervisor(s): Corinne Claims Self-Determination on Perspectives Euro-American Sovereignty: of Reconfiguration Internal the and Globalisation Rigueira Paulo Short Supervisor(s): Damien managed. is this howand Nigeria of Delta Niger the in conflict social Protracted Oyibo Peggy Short Lennox/Damien Supervisor(s): Corinne Development American Latin in Afro-descendents Including Nation? aMestizo in Rights Minority Ojulari Esther Manor Supervisor(s): James Delta Niger the in development for social organisations faith-based Engaging borders: without Development Odoemene Emmanuel
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