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Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 30 October 2015

It is with great sadness that we mourn Ron’s death. Ron was for many years the heart and soul of the IACFS. He was one of the founding members of the Association in 1977, and president from 1992 to 1997.

The South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy, based at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights of the University of the Western Cape invites you to apply for a full-time post-doctoral research fellowship in multilevel government for 2016-17.

IACFS initiated the Young Scholar Award in 2014, an annual award for the best unpublished article or paper on an aspect of federalism.

VVoters in Scotland have rejected independence from Britain, opting to preserve a more than 300-year-old union in a referendum Thursday that sent shock waves through Europe and opened the door to continuing political tumult in Britain.

Scotland’s independence referendum has opened cracks in the United Kingdom

Mariano Rajoy says Scotland avoided 'serious consequences' of separation, but Catalans say they want chance to vote

The United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights said today that gross violations committed by all parties to the conflict in South Sudan have declined but the number of civilians forced to flee the violence now nears 2 million “with no likelihood that people will return to their homes soon.”