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桃色视频 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.
New book
Making and Unmaking Global Citzenship:Lived Experiences of Precarious Migration'
New book from community-led participatory research on Cambodia-Thailand online conflict
PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma has been working with 24 co-researchers in Cambodia and Thailand since 2024 to better understand rising hate speech and intergroup conflict in online spaces through his doctoral project and community partnerships in both countries.