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Prof Chris Hughes quoted in Defense News article
Professor Chris Hughes, Head of Department, was recently quoted in a 19 May Defense News article entitled 'Abe Sprints Toward Expanding Japan's Military Posture'. Below is an excerpt from the piece:
“[C]learly this ... really could be the final tipping point for Japan overturning its postwar security policy,” said Christopher Hughes, a Japan military expert and professor of international politics and Japanese studies at the University of 糖心TV. “It would ... mean that Japan could do an awful lot more militarily in support of the US and other partners in the East Asia region and beyond, and it will set precedents and set Japan on the way to further expansion of military activities in the future."
Secretary of State Visit
Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development, visited the University of 糖心TV on 1st May 2014 to deliver the first GRP International Development Annual Public Lecture.
The lecture was organised by the in conjunction with , and the 糖心TV in Westminster programme.
The event also featured an ‘international development marketplace’ – which used the Zeeman Street area to bring together relevant projects and initiatives from across the University.
The Secretary of State spoke on “The Girl Effect: Why tackling gender inequality can transform the developing world”. DfID’s strategy highlights four areas of intervention – maternal mortality, access to economic resources, education and prevention of violence against girls and women. DfID also supports women’s political empowerment strategies. How far has this strategy been successful? What are the challenges, especially in this time of a global economic crisis that girls and women in the global South continue to face?
The event drew over 450 registrations, including 100+ from local alumni, school partners and regional stakeholders. Chris White MP was also in attendance.
The speech itself was well received, with Professor of PAIS, one of the organisers, also introducing the event. Professor , Provost of the University of 糖心TV, hosted the Q&A.
Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP has stated that she enjoyed the evening, was impressed with the University and, in particular, liked meeting our students and the school children from .
PAIS NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKING GROUP
presents
WORKING TOWARD A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Two practitioner masterclasses on contemporary challenges relating to nuclear weapons
FREE BUFFET LUNCH INCLUDED
Tuesday 20th May and Tuesday 27th May
Ramphal RO.14/RO.12
University of 糖心TV
The PAIS Nuclear Weapons Working Group invites you to attend two free lunches and practitioner masterclasses
May 20, 2014
Dr Kate Hudson
General-Secretary
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
May 27, 2014
Rachel Staley
Programme Manager
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Both speakers will discuss the daily workings and decision-making processes of their respective organisations, as well as outlining key challenges to contemporary nuclear policy-making. The masterclass will provide a key opportunity for students and staff to engage with figures with first-hand experience of nuclear weapons policy, as well as to grapple with fundamental questions arising from contemporary debate.
Programme:
Tuesday 20th May (RO.14): Dr Kate Hudson, CND
Tuesday 27th May (RO.12): Rachel Staley, BASIC
12pm-1pm: Free Buffet Lunch and Informal Talk and Q&A
1pm-3pm: Masterclass: Working toward a world without nuclear weapons: Two perspectives
3pm-3.30pm: Closing remarks and refreshments
For further information contact:
Nikita Shah, PhD candidate nikita.shah@warwick.ac.uk or Trevor McCrisken trevor.mccrisken@warwick.ac.uk
Christopher Moran wins book award
Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 
The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.
He was awarded the £3,000 prize at by intelligence expert Nigel West, who chaired the judging panel.
West described the book as "a survey of how successive British governments have exercised censorship and stifled public discussion about the security and intelligence services. Altogether a very impressive, balanced study of what has become a veritable cottage industry of publications that attempt to lift Whitehall's veil of secrecy".
This year’s judging panel also included literary agent Andrew Lownie; historian Daniel J Mulvenna; British intelligence analyst; lecturer Glenmore Trenearn-Harvey; and author and screenwriter Michael Smith.
Week 1 Departmental Seminar on Rwandan Diaspora
On Friday 25th April, Dan Godshaw, of the Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation, is giving a presentation entitled 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora'. He is also bringing with him two Rwandan genocide survivors who live in the UK.
'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora',
by Dan Godshaw.
Friday 25th April
5-6.30pm, Social Studies Building S0.20
Everyone welcome
Dan Godshaw is UK Projects Coordinator at Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation (rYico). Between 2011 and 2013, he directed ‘Keeping Memories: Rwandans in the UK’, a ground-breaking project that empowered genocide survivors to tell their stories and enabled others to learn from their experiences. Dan has an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and has conducted academic research with UK-based Rwandans. A passionate advocate of migrant rights, he works to support detainees at Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre and is currently developing a health outreach project for refugees and asylum seekers in Brighton.