The Commonwealth Conversation

And so to CHOGM…

Thank you to all those who have commented on the question of profile I raised in my last blog entry. Since that post all of us in the Conversation team have been trying to digest your comments into a report of emerging findings. After an intense few days, the report is off to the printers and will be published next week, just as Commonwealth leaders and officials turn up for CHOGM in Trinidad.

Anyone who has been a frequent visitor to these pages should have a good idea of the sorts of the things we will be saying. Our report is unashamedly provocative, not because we want to undermine the Commonwealth, but because we believe the Conversation so far should be a wake up call. In the spirit of public consultation, we also believe in reporting what we have been told, even if the truth hurts.

I suspect that our report will ruffle some feathers next week, but I hope it will be received in the constructive spirit we embarked on at the start of this process.

Having engaged tens of thousands of people in thinking about the future of the Commonwealth, for us it would be hugely disappointing if our findings are ignored by leaders in Trinidad. We believe the Conversation should lead to real action, not just a paragraph in a long communiqué, or the renaming of a division in the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Several members of the Conversation team will be in Trinidad, trying to get people to pay attention to our findings. We promise to give you a blow by blow account of how we get on. Watch this space…

Category : Director's Blog, The Official Commonwealth
Tags: CHOGM, danny, Trinidad
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