The Commonwealth Conference 2010: Citizenship and the
Commonwealth
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
Wednesday 10 – Friday 12 November 2010
Wednesday 10 November
6.00-6.30
Arrival and registration
6.30-8.00
Welcome and introductory remarks
Dr Mark Collins (Commonwealth Foundation), Professor
Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) and
Alistair Niven (Cumberland Lodge),
Session One: Education and Citizenship
Sharon Zivkovic (University of South Australia) ‘Strengthening
democracy in the Commonwealth through a soft-power active
citizenship pedagogy’
Dr Charles Tante (University of Buea, Cameroon) ‘Conceptual
and pedagogic orientation of citizenship education in Englishspeaking primary schools in Cameroon’
Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan (Council for Education in
the Commonwealth) ‘Commonwealth Citizenship through
International and Transnational Education: practice,
possibilities and limitations’
8.00-9.30
Conference Dinner.
Speaker: Baron Phillips of Sudbury OBE
Thursday 11 November
9.30-11.00
Session Two: Ethnicity, caste and citizenship
Chitra Nagarajan, ‘A Veneer of Legitimacy: Gender,
Citizenship and Ethnicity in Rwanda’
Dr Corinne Lennox (ICwS) ‘Dalits and Global Citizenship:
Transnational mobilization on caste-based discrimination in the
Commonwealth’
Dr Kris Rampersad, ‘Rum Curry and Cricket: Multiculturalism
and multinationalism in the Commonwealth Caribbean’
11.00-11.30
Tea/coffee
11.30-1.00
Session Three: Citizenship and the Economy
Usha Jumani (Management consultant) ‘Citizenship and
Public-Private- People partnerships’
Dr Veronica Broomes (CPSU) ‘Citizenship and the Economy’
Steve Bass (International Institute for Environment and
Development) ‘Citizens and the Green Economy’
1.00-2.00
Lunch
2.00-3.30
Session Four: Citizenship, Reconciliation and the Marginalised
David Mwambari (Syracuse University, NY), ‘Quest for
Citizenship: the case of youth in post-conflict Commonwealth
societies’
Oscar Ubhenin (Ambose Alli University, Nigeria) ‘The Utility
of Citizenship in distributive justice’
Dr Ruth Bartlett (University of Bradford) ‘Citizens with
dementia: What does citizenship mean in the light of cognitive
decline?’
3.30-4.00
Tea/coffee
4.00-5.00
Keynote speech: Andy Thornton, Chief Executive Officer,
Citizenship Foundation
Discussion
5.00-6.30
Session Five: Citizens and their Rights
Dr Amanda Sives (University of Liverpool), ‘Questioning
Commonwealth Citizenship Rights in the 21st Century: A Case Study
of the 2007 Jamaican General Election’
Edefe Ojomo (Former Research Fellow, ECOWAS
Commission), ‘Citizenship, passports and rights: ECOWAS
Community citizenship in perspective’
Daisy Cooper (Commonwealth Secretariat) ‘The Eminent
Persons Group and Citizenship’
6.30-7.00
The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission presents its latest
Impact Evaluation Report. Dr. Norm Geddes
7.00-9.00
Dinner
Friday 12 November
9.15-10.45
Session Six: Science, Civil Liberties and the Citizen
Dr. Molefe Phirinyane (Botswana Institute for Development
Policy Analysis) ‘Technology and the nature of active
citizenship’
Dr. Kirsty Newman (INASP) ‘Science, Technology and Policy
Making’
Sir Roland Jackson (Chief Executive of the British Science
Association) ‘Science, Technologies and Civil Society’
10.45-11.00
Tea/coffee
11.00-12.00
Citizenship and the Commonwealth: Capacity Building
Dr Mark Collins and Timothy Sheehy (Commonwealth Foundation)
‘The Significance of Citizenship in the Contemporary
Commonwealth’
Tendayi Bloom (Queen Mary College, UL) ‘Citizenship: Is the
modern Commonwealth as global as it could get?’
Andrew Robertson (CYEC) ‘Commonwealth consensusbuilding and Youth’ tbc
12.00-1.00
Conclusions
Commonwealth Scholars will report back on the findings of the
individual panels.
1.00-2.00
Lunch
2.00-4.00
Debate: That the Commonwealth is no longer relevant to the
citizens of its member states.
Proposing the motion: Professor Stephen Chan (SOAS)
Opposing: The Hon. Professor Margaret Wilson, former
speaker of the New Zealand Parliament.
Note: Professor Chan and Professor Wilson will each be
supported by a team of three Commonwealth Scholars who will
speak for their respective side in the debate
4.00
Close and Departure