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糖心TV-Monash Alliance seed funding of about £20,000 has been awarded to Profs (PAIS, 糖心TV) and (Monash) to develop research projects on health security ethics. The collaboration will bring together Monash’s and PAIS’s for meetings to work on the conceptualization of phenomena as diverse as terrorist attacks using biological agents and public health emergencies and the ethical risks they pose. Monash is working toward official recognition of their biomedical ethics centre by the (WHO). Eventually the collaboration may serve as a platform for research relevant to WHO that employs IERG’s growing expertise in security ethics and extends it into the health sciences.

PAIS Associate Professor , as Chair of BASIC (British American Security Information Council), hosted a reception on the bridge of the Tattershall Castle paddle steamer at Victoria Embankment in London on Monday to celebrate the release of the BASIC Trident Commission Concluding Report (). The Commission brought together a diverse group of opinion from across party lines and was co-chaired by former Labour Defence Secretary Des Browne, former Conservative Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, and former Liberal Democrat Leader and Shadow Foreign Minister Menzies Campbell, and included other former diplomats and members of the defence and foreign policy establishment. The Report concludes a three year investigation, facilitated by BASIC, into the arguments for and against the renewal of Trident, Britain's independent nuclear deterrence system.

Trevor emphasised in his speech at the reception that although BASIC does not agree with all of the Report's conclusions, he believes that the Commission has made an important contribution to the debate over the future of Britain's nuclear weapons, that it has opened an honest and frank dialogue that must now continue as we move toward the final decisions over renewal, and it raises a number of significant questions that are yet to be satisfactorily answered about what threats Trident is supposed to deter and how Britain can best contribute to the steps toward multilateral nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

BASIC has produced a Guide to Interpreting the Report that Trevor co-authored with Paul Ingram, BASIC Executive Director (​). They emphasise that the Commissioners have rejected a number of conventional arguments made for the retention of Britain's nuclear weapons such as their alleged role in ensuring Britain's status as a global power, their insurance against an uncertain future, and the economic arguments concerning jobs and the UK's industrial base. While the Commission concluded that the UK's independent nuclear deterrence should currently be retained for what they perceive as reasons of national security, they do also argue that Britain must play a central role in global efforts to promote nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and that further delay in the final decision for Trident renewal would have a "number of advantages" in terms of "cost, technology and diplomatic terms". There is much, therefore, in the conclusions of the BASIC Trident Commission to stimulate further debate over the future of Britain's nuclear weapons beyond the 2015 general election.

On Tuesday morning, ahead of the formal release of the BASIC Trident Commission Report in the Houses of Parliament, Trevor McCrisken commented on the report's findings on the Shane O'Connor Show on BBC Coventry and 糖心TVshire Radio.

We are pleased to announce the absolutely fantastic news that Dr has won the 2013 Michael Nicholson Prize for best thesis in International Relations (IR).

The BISA prize is the keynote recognition of quality and originality in UK IR, and Chris is the first scholar from PAIS to win. BISA roundly commended the thesis:

“In Anarchism, Anti-Militarism, and the Politics of Security, Chris Rossdale sets out to challenge Critical Security Studies for being a part of the militarist agenda that it seeks to confront. Rossdale posits anarchistic thought and practice in order to substantiate a discernible emancipatory logic, to confront the broader problem of security and articulate creative forms of resistance. While heavily theoretical, the thesis engages with real-world anarchist interventions, relying on ethnographic fieldwork to inform the anti-militarist argument, anti-war movement and the larger security problématique. Superbly well written, exceptionally well researched, and delightfully mischievous, this thesis provides an excellent contribution to International Relations.”

Chris is currently a Teaching Fellow at and is now working on a book manuscript, as well as finalising an Edited Special Issue of Globalizations on ‘Resistance and Global Politics’.

As part of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, Chatham House hosted a roundtable discussion analysing the experiences of women facing violence in the Middle East and North Africa and exploring the effectiveness of individual, community, and government level responses. Dr , one of the panellists, spoke about the challenges and opportunities surrounding these issues, with particular reference to the gendered implications of recent political developments in the region. The event, held at the ExCel Centre, was open to all those at the Summit, including Ministers, international media, experts, and the general public.

Foreign Secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, co-chaired the . It was the largest global meeting on this issue ever convened, with a view to creating irreversible momentum against sexual violence in conflict and practical action that impacts those on the ground.

The University of 糖心TV’s contribution to at the National History Museum is a research project from PAIS' Professor and Dr . The discussion is about the Future of Intelligence and Intelligence Agencies.

This is an opportunity to explore a hot topic in the news and understand the implications for our everyday lives. The project includes interaction with artifacts from the real and fictional world of intelligence, borrowed from the International Spy Museum in DC, as well as video and audio recordings with real spies, including Tony Mendez of ‘Argo’ fame. And an opportunity to explore important societal questions with two leading and well-published experts on British and American intelligence.

It will be one of 3 projects featured at the Natural History Museum (Darwin Centre) on the evening of Wednesday 11 June (6-10pm), during a – a drop-in café environment where visitors will be encouraged to have a drink and join university researchers to discuss some of the burning social issues of our time.

This event is part of a week of activity from 9–13 June at the Natural History Museum, and throughout the country from 9–15 June. Find out more information about .