Newsletter from “The Social Process of Guarantees of Antioquia, Colombia” project

The research team of the Creating Safer Space project The Social Process of Guarantees of Antioquia, Colombia has produced a newsletter, which details their fieldwork with indigenous and peasant communities in Bajo Cauca.

Group of women leaders of the Almendros 2 Indigenous Community, El Bagre 2023

The research team carried out ‘word circles’ with the communities, in order to “deepen the information on the protection and self-protection strategies planned and executed by the ethnic communities and peasant organizations, and the results they have obtained, recognizing the individual and collective practices, motivations and lessons learned”. The research team also accompanied the installation of white flags as a self-protection mechanism.

The newsletter details the findings of the fieldwork, and is available here:
Spanish (original)
English (google translated, so please be aware it may contain inaccuracies)


UCP Research Forum on Asia

The Creating Safer Space team at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, invites you to the second UCP Research Forum on Asia.

This month, Arfiansyah (International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies) and Delsy Ronnie (Nonviolent Peaceforce) will share experiences and insights from their research project, “Exploring Local Infrastructures and Initiatives for Civilian (Self) Protection in Papua amidst Violent Conflict”.

7.30 – 9.00 pm Bangkok time (12.30 – 2.00 pm UTC) on Wednesday 23 August
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The session will be held in English.

Please register for this online Zoom event here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwofuqrpzgiGdfslGBqoXnqTWFTaN-0EFQh


Research Café: The Centrality of Relationships to Nonviolence and UCP

The aim of the network-wide Creating Safer Space Research Café is to enable people in different parts of the world to exchange knowledge and to help build a community of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) researchers and practitioners.

At the next Research Café, Louise Ridden and Felicity Gray will present their research on the Unarmed Civilian Protection in theory and in practice, and the similarities and differences they found in the work.

2.00 – 3.30 pm UTC on Monday 21 August

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The session will be held in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation.

Please register for this online Zoom event here:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkduihqzgsHNLpCgxv5JPo3dMLDbUDK6vk