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Updated:
November 16, 2007
Some early publications are out of print but more recent ones can be purchased from the CPSU or downloaded from this website.
Policy
Briefs
The CPSU regularly produces Policy Briefs prior to Commonwealth Ministerial
Meetings. They are normally posted free to governments and interested
NGOs and journalists. Numbers 1 and 2 of the series are only available
in hard copy. The full list is:
- 1 1999 Commonwealth Law Ministers -- Richard Bourne
- 2 1999 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Jeremy Scottt-Joynt
- 3 2000 Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers -- Helena Whall
- 4 2000 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Jeremy Scott-Joynt
- 5 2000 Commonwealth Education Ministers -- Richard Bourne
- 6 2001 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Jeremy Scott-Joynt
- 7 2001 Commonwealth Health Ministers -- Preeti Patel
- 8 2002 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Jeremy Scott-Joynt
- 9 2002 Commonwealth Law Ministers -- Richard Bourne
- 10 2003 Commonwealth Youth Ministers -- Abigail Page
- 11 2003 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Jeremy Scott-Joynt
- 12 2003 Commonwealth Education Ministers -- Richard Bourne
- 13 2004 Commonwealth Tourism Ministers -- Alan Fyall
- 14 2004 Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers -- Dilhani Wijeyesekara
- 15 2004 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Barry Watson and George Watson
- 16 2005 Commonwealth Tourism Ministers -- Alan Fyall
- 17 2005 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Matthew Hulbert
- 18 2005 Commonwealth Law Ministers -- Michelle Kagari
- 19 2006 Commonwealth Youth Ministers -- Frank Soodeen
- 20 2006 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Matthew N Hulbert
- 21 2006 Commonwealth Education Ministers -- Kimberly Ochs
- 22 2007 Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers -- Helena Whall
- 23 2007 Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Matthew Hulbert
Other CPSU Publications
2007
Uganda’s Commonwealth Summit: A briefing on issues before the leaders at Kampala, November 2007
2006
Putting Youth Engagement into Practice: a Toolkit for Action, Steve Mokwena edited by Susanna Darch, Commonwealth Secretariat, November 2006
Membership of the Commonwealth: Note for the Committee chaired by the Hon P J Patterson, Richard Bourne, November 2006
2005
'The Commonwealth and International Development: Networking Global Actors', summary report of the CPSU workshop at the Commonwealth People’s Forum, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta, 23rd November 2005
'Malta’s Commonwealth Summit: A briefing on issues before the leaders at Valletta in November 2005', CPSU CHOGM Briefing, November 2005
'Millennium, Development Goal 8 – Developing a Global Partnership for Development', presentation given by Daisy Cooper at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Annual Conference, Nadi, Fiji, 7 September 2005
'A Commonwealth of Ideas', valedictory talk given by Richard Bourne at the Commonwealth Club, 14th July 2005 - this has been published in Round Table, Issue 383 January 2006, pp 39- 46
Human Rights: a Comparison between Northern Ireland and Nigeria', report prepared by Commonwealth Professional Fellow, Omolara Akinyeye, April 2005
'Understanding Peace Building Process in Plural Societies, and Lessons Learnt from Northern Ireland', report prepared by Commonwealth Professional Fellow, Mohammed Ibrahim, March 2005
Leadership and Interfaith Initiatives for the Commonwealth – a Multifaith Advisory Council for the Commonwealth, presentation by Richard Bourne at the Third Diversity Matters Forum, February 2005
CMAG should plan a dialogue with other Foreign Ministers and the People's Forum in Valetta in November 2005, CPSU memorandum submitted to the Commonwealth Ministers Action Group (CMAG), February 2005
2004
In May 2004, The CPSU participated, with the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, in a consultation on youth engagement with Commonwealth and other organisations. The following brief report is available from that meeting
In March 2004, the CPSU circulated a note to the Executive Committee of the governors of the Commonwealth Secretariat regarding a proposed review of the frequency of sectoral Commonwealth Ministerial meetings
In November 2003, the CPSU published 'Nigeria's Commonwealth Summit: A Briefing on the Issues Before the Leaders at Abuja in December 2003'.
In March 2003, the
second Diversity Matters conference was organised by the CPSU in association
with the Australian Multicultural Foundation and the Commonwealth Foundation
in London. Click here for a copy of the 'Forum
Report: Second Diversity Matters - a commonwealth forum on cultural diversity'.
The first Diversity Matters conference was organised in October 2001,
as part of the Brisbane CHOGM, by the Australian Multicultural Foundation
and the Commonwealth Institute. Click here for a copy of the 'Forum
Report: First Diversity Matters - a commonwealth forum on cultural diversity'
.
2002
In March 2002, the Election Observation Project published the 'Good Practice Guidelines for Commonwealth Observers' and the 'Good Practice Guidelines for Commonwealth Domestic Observer Groups'.
In the CPSU-SAIIA publication 'Australia's Commonwealth Summit: A briefing on issues before the leaders at Coolum in March 2002', Amanda Shah examines the nature of the relationship between the government and non-governmental Commonwealth in the essay 'Relations between the Official and Unofficial Commonwealth'.
2001
Adding Value to the Commonwealth Democracy Programme ( A CPSU submission to the Commonwealth High Level Review on election observation and deepening democracy ) by Amanda Sives, CPSU, July 2001 (ISBN 1855071118)
Where next for the Group of 54? ( Five essays on the future of the Commonwealth of Nations at the start of the 21st century ) edited by Richard Bourne, CPSU, June 2001 (ISBN 185507110)
2000
A Need to Know ( The struggle for democratic, civilian oversight of the security sector in Commonwealth countries ) by Neil Sammonds, CPSU, December 2000 (ISBN 1855071061)
Available
publications can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format
Publications still available in hard copy from CPSU are:
- Universities and Development, edited by Richard Bourne (ISBN 0851431720) £20
- Professional networking for basic education: proposal for a four country Commonwealth project by Richard Bourne (ISBN 1855071053) £12
- Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector in the Commonwealth, rapporteur Niobe Thompson, CPSU, March 2000 (ISBN 1855071029) £10
N.B The CPSU charges extra for postage and packaging, depending on weight and destination.
2005
Deepening
Local Democracy
CPSU, March 2005
Updated: November 16, 2007
2004
What
young people think about the Commonwealth
CPSU, April 2004
Hope
for change: World Social Forum in Mumbai
Manisha Diedrich, CPSU Civil Society Project Officer, February 2004
An abridged version of this article has been published in Commonwealth
People, May 2004
2003
From
rhetoric to action: Youth participation in the Commonwealth
Article from The Commonwealth Heads of Government
2003: The Commonwealth in the 21st Century, Commonwealth Secretariat
and Henley Media Publishing, December 2003
Civil
Society in the Commonwealth
Chapter from Nigeria’s
Commonwealth Summit: A Briefing on Issues Before the Leaders at Abuja,
CPSU, December 2003.
'Survival
of the youngest: from rhetoric to action'
CPSU, September 2003
'Report
of the Commonwealth advocacy workshop, 23-24 June 2003 Accra, Ghana'
CPSU in association with CHRI, June 2003
'Survival
of the youngest: pan-Commonwealth NGOs and the younger generation'
The Round Table, April 2003
'The
Commonwealth of Nations: a positive forum for civil society engagement?'
Alliance Extra, March 2003
'Partners
or protagonists? The Commonwealth of Nations and civil society'
Transnational associations, January 2003
2002
'A
Commonwealth of governments and peoples: a new partnership'
Background note for the Royal Commonwealth Society conference, CPSU, October
2002
'Joining
up the Commonwealth: a response to governmental calls for increased co-operation
with civil society'
CPSU, August 2002
'Commonwealth
civil society after Coolum'
Seminar paper given by Amanda Shah, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
June 2002
'Commonwealth
civil society after Coolum'
Seminar paper given by Claire Auplat, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
June 2002
'Submission
to the Co-ordination Committee for Commonwealth Agencies from the Commonwealth
Policy Studies Unit'
CPSU, June 2002
'Bridging
divides, making a difference: the People's Commonwealth'
Presentation for the Royal Commonwealth Society international meeting,
June 2002
'Relations
between the Official and Unofficial Commonwealth'
Australia's Commonwealth
Summit: a briefing on issues before the leaders at Coolum in March 2002,
CPSU, February 2002
EU Co-Operation for African Development
2005
'Case for a compact in Valletta: how the Commonwealth can cooperate with the European and African Unions to implement the promises of 2005 for African development', Richard Bourne, September 2005
'Building cooperation between the Commonwealth and the European Union to support the African Union's NEPAD process', background note to the conference held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 23rd May, 2005
Indigenous Land Rights and Resource Management
2004
'Conceptualising
indigenous land rights in the Commonwealth'
CPSU/ CLA, March 2004
Indigenous Rights Project
Updated:
November 16, 2007
2004
'Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Commonwealth, with a focus on Indigenous Women' in: Gender and Human Rights in the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004
'Indigenous
Peoples and the Abuja CHOGM, 2003 - a Lost Opportunity'
Human Rights Update, no.4, June 2004
'Summary
Report of the Indigenous Rights in the Commonwealth Project'
CPSU, March
2004
'Indigenous
Peoples and the Commonwealth: Reflections on the Abuja CHOGM, December
2003'
Commonwealth
Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) News, New Delhi, Spring 2004.
'Indigenous
Peoples and the Commonwealth'
Paper presented at 'Minority Rights and Reconciliation
in the Commonwealth', February 11th-13th, Cumberland Lodge
'Indigenous
Self-Determination in the Commonwealth of Nations'
Chapter written for 'Unfinished Constitutional Business?: Rethinking
Indigenous Self-Determination', ed. Barbara Ann Hocking, to be published
by Aboriginal Studies Press (ASP), Queensland, Australia, 2004
2003
'Invisible
Lives: Undercounted, underrepresented and underneath: the socio-economic
plight of Indigenous peoples in the Commonwealth'
CPSU, May 2003.
'Indigenous
Rights in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Americas'
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Newsletter,
Volume 10, No. 2, New Delhi, Autumn 2003.
'A
Story of Exclusion: Indigenous Peoples in the Commonwealth'
The Parliamentarian,
2003/Issue Three, the Journal of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
(CPA).
'The
Challenge of Indigenous Peoples: The Unfinished Business of Decolonisation'
The Round Table, October
2003.
'Recognising
and Protecting Indigenous Rights in the Commonwealth'
Memorandum circulated to the Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting, Abuja, Nigeria, December 1 - 7th 2003, CPSU, November 2003.
2002
'Indigenous
Rights in the Commonwealth: The Australian Report'
CPSU/University of Queensland, Australia, 2002.
'Recognising
and Protecting Indigenous Rights in the Commonwealth'
Memorandum to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) Coolum, Australia, March 2002, CPSU, February 2002.
'The
Miner's Canary: Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development in the
Commonwealth'
Memorandum to Commonwealth Heads of State attending the
UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, August - September 2002, Johannesburg,
South Africa, CPSU, August 2002.
'Indigenous
Rights in Commonwealth Africa'
Nomadic News, Indigenous Information Network (IIN) Kenya,
Autumn 2002.
2001
'A
case for Commonwealth attention to Indigenous rights based on the initial
findings of the project'
Submission
to the High Level Review of the Future of the Commonwealth, Chaired by
President Thabo Mbeki, 9th-10th July 2001, Singapore, CPSU, July 2001.
'Combating Racism against Indigenous
Peoples'
Memorandum to Commonwealth Heads of State attending the
UN World Conference on Racism, August - September 2001, Durban, South
Africa, CPSU, August 2001.
'Recognising
and Protecting Indigenous Peoples Rights in the Commonwealth'
Memorandum to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) Brisbane, Australia, October 2001, CPSU, September 2001.
Strengthened Human Rights Mechanism for the Commonwealth
2003
'A
Strengthened Human Rights Mechanism for the Commonwealth'
Report commissioned by the UK government and circulated to Commonwealth
governments, CPSU, October 2003.
The Role of the Commonwealth in Implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
2004
'Stubbing it out: a briefing for Commonwealth health ministers on how to implement the framework convention on tobacco control, 2003', CPSU, March 2004
Commonwealth-UN Co-operation for Development
2005
'Improving
the UN development system: is there a Commonwealth consensus?'
Report of the Commonwealth-UN Co-operation for Development
Project, July 2005
'Improving
the UN Development System: Is there a Commonwealth Consensus?'
CPSU background note to consultation at the United Nations,
New York, 1st June
'The
UN, the Commonwealth, and the Millennium Development Goals'
CPSU, March 2005