Round Table Centenary event with the Institute of International Relations
Posted by AlexT - 17/12/09 at 02:12 pmTitle: Round Table Centenary event with the Institute of International Relations
Location: University of the West Indies, Port of Spain
Date: 2009-11-27
On the afternoon of the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port of Spain, over fifty academics, civil society representatives and policy makers gathered at the University of the West Indies for a conference on the contemporary Commonwealth.
The event was organised by The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs to mark its centenary in 2009/10. During the conference, the Round Table also launched a new publication edited by Professor James Mayall, University of Cambridge, called ‘The Contemporary Commonwealth: an assessment, 1965-2009’. An extract from this can be found here:
Other speakers at the event and following dinner included Sir Ronald Sanders (former Caribbean diplomat) and Sir Sonny Ramphal (former Commonwealth Secretary-General).
During the conference Zoë Ware, Commonwealth Affairs Manager, spoke as a respondent to Sandra McIntyre-Trotman (Director of Policy and Planning at the Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Ministry).
A lively discussion followed about feelings towards the Commonwealth in the Caribbean, and particularly about how poorly the Commonwealth is taught in schools. Participants found this video captured during the Conversation, to be a particularly good starting point for discussion.
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