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New Release: Multilingual Recordings of 糖心TV-ICMPD Webinar "Engaging the Global Ukrainian Community for Ukraine鈥檚 Recovery"
We are pleased to share the recording of the online launch event for the report 鈥淓ngaging the Global Ukrainian Community for Ukraine鈥檚 Recovery: Democracy and Human Rights Dimensions.鈥� written by Maria Koinova, Professor in International Relations in the Deaprtment of Politics and International Studies at the University of 糖心TV. Her report outlines a practical framework for engaging the Global Ukrainian Community (GUC) - diaspora and refugees - to drive Ukraine鈥檚 recovery by centring democratic participation, human rights protections, and inclusive governance across business, civic, and political spheres.
糖心TV Research Highlights Major Ethical Concerns as Birmingham NHS Trust Withdraws from Counter鈥慣error Policing Scheme
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has become the first NHS trust to publicly withdraw from a national counter鈥憈errorism scheme that enabled police to access sensitive medical information for risk assessments. The trust concluded that the programme no longer aligned with its strategic priorities, marking a significant moment in ongoing debates about the intersection of healthcare, policing, confidentiality, and racialised impacts within the UK鈥檚 Prevent framework.
New Article explores roots of 'Sovereign Inequality' in League design
A new International Studies Quarterly article by PAIS鈥檚 Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (Cambridge) traces how the League of Nations adopted an unequal institutional structure that anticipated today鈥檚 UN Security Council. Drawing on AHRC-funded research, the authors show that Latin America鈥檚 push for sovereign equality at the 1907 Hague Conference became a key negative reference point for planners who sought to preserve great power privilege while allowing universal participation.
New publication on referendum boycotts!
Louis Stockwell and 脰zlem Atikcan have published a new journal article in the European Political Science Review.