Institute of Commonwealth Studies

📢 Join us on Human Rights Day for a live online webinar! 📢

On 10 December 2026 from 3pm-4pm (UK time) come along to hear about our Postgraduate Studies in Human Rights by distance learning.

Learn more about our MA, PGDip and PGCert, the modules you will study, and the career paths that will be open to you. The webinar includes a live Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to ask your questions directly to Programme Director Professor Corinne Lennox.

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#CHOGM2026: This week, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies sent a delegation of seven academics to CHOGM 2026 in Antigua and Barbuda to engage with policymakers, civil society and grassroots organisations.

➡️ Engagement with People-Centred Public Safety Fellows
➡️ Talking to Antiguan civil society, faith-based communities and grassroots organisations and reparatory justice
➡️ Dialogue with policymakers and other stakeholders on the potential of the Commonwealth and the value of the impactful pertnerships; and
➡️ Address to Commonwealth Foreign Ministers by ICwS Director Professor @AbbottKingsley
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#ReparatoryJustice: In Antigua, on the margins of CHOGM 2026, Professor @AbbottKingsley spoke to grassroots, faith and other civil society groups. Some of his remarks were picked up by @Guardian:

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Prof Kingsley Abbott, a human rights lawyer and director of the @ICWS_SAS at the University of London, also stressed the importance of harmed communities having a decisive say in what reparations should entail.

Speaking at the global reparations caravan launch on Tuesday, he said: “It’s for you to say. It’s your story. It’s your lived experience. But it’s time to start listening to those who continue to suffer from those crimes even today. It’s time to listen to you and to listen and learn from you.

“I reflected on my work as a human rights lawyer in different parts of the world. And in that time, I’ve met with many different victims of serious human rights violations, atrocity crimes, and their families and their descendants in places like Guatemala, Colombia, Nepal, Myanmar. And here in Antigua tonight, I’m meeting with all of you.

“Wherever those victims of those terrible crimes and their families were from, and whatever their faith, whatever their ethnicity, whatever their beliefs, they all had one thing in common. When I met with them, they all said that they wanted justice. And they wanted not only justice, but they wanted to be made whole again.”

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Today, on 2 November 2026, the @icws_sas is hosting a roundtable discussion and reception as part of the People-Centred Public Safety project's international engagement programme held on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (#CHOGM) in Antigua and Barbuda.

This roundtable event brings together distinguished delegates, researchers, and policymakers to connect and discuss community-led approaches to public safety. It will feature our newly launched transregional People Centred Public Safety Fellows and other leading voices in the People-Centred Public Safety initiative.

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Sri Lanka: strengthening efforts in the search for missing persons

In September 2026, Professor @AbbottKingsley, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, travelled to Sri Lanka to support the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the issue of missing persons.

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