- The Challenge of Diversity
- Exploring Federalism - the Kingston sessions
- Speaking of Federalism
The Forum-produced video, The Challenge of Diversity - the Federal Experience, describes how five countries deal with their diverse ethnic and linguistic characteristics through their federal systems: India; Switzerland; Belgium; Spain and Canada.
Those studying federalism, or seeking models and examples to help guide efforts to construct new political structures will likely find something of interest in all cases.
The video, available here online, (Adobe Flash Player required) is divided up into the following sections:
A bilingual (English/French) DVD version is also available from the Forum of Federations.
Exploring Federalism : the Kingston sessions, list of 10 DVD
modules (2007)
 These videos are based on footage
from Iraq study tour to Canada, February 16 - 18, 2006
at Queen's University (Kingston) Institute of Intergovernmental
Relations.
(Adobe
Flash Player  required).
1. The Division of Power in a Federal State, Hon. Bob Rae ( 22 minutes)
2. Sharing Power at the Centre, Prof. John McGarry (22 min)
3. Regions in a Federation, Dr Ron Watts ( 24 min)
4. Securing a Federal State : Civil-Military Relations, Lt-Col Last / Dr Bland (23 minutes )
5. Federal Institutions : Unity from Diversity (21 minutes)
6. The Judiciary in a Federation (25 min)
7. Inter-Governmental Relations : Managing the Business of a Federation, Prof. David Cameron ( 22 min)
8. Inter-Governmental Relations : Resolution of Disputes in a Federation Prof. David Cameron (21 min)
9. Fiscal Federalism : Managing Natural Resources, Ehtisham Ahmad (25 min)
10. Fiscal Federalism : Coping with Fiscal Imbalance, Dr Robin Boadway (21 min)
All of the modules are available on DVD in our multimedia section.
Speaking of Federalism
Speaking of Federalism is an exploration of the ideas that were generated at the International Conference on Federalism in Saint Gallen, Switzerland in 2002, as expressed in the words of the participants. It is a compilation of ideas on what federalism means in the minds of those who practice it in a dozen countries.
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