Colombia project shares research findings

The Creating Safer Space project ‘The Social Process of Guarantees of Antioquia, Colombia, an experience of unarmed civil protection with indigenous and peasant communities of Bajo Cauca’ has recently finished.

The project team is pleased to share a multimedia tool that contains the results of the project, available on the organisation’s website: https://cjlibertad.org/psgbajocauca/

An event was held to present the results to relevant organizations and national and regional authorities responsible for the protection and guarantee for social leaders and human rights defenders and indigenous authorities. It sought to generate commitments for the protection of life and guarantees for the work of leadership. State authorities recognize the serious risk situation for social leaders and human rights defenders and indigenous authorities, but are unable to commit to strategies that provide protection and guarantees to the work of social leaders.


Creating Safer Space Exhibition in Bangkok

The Creating Safer Space Exhibition was on show at the Social Innovation Hub at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, from 20 February – 5 March 2024. The exhibition was part of the Creating Safer Space final regional research forum for South-East Asia, hosted by the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University.

The travelling exhibition, which has also been on show in Nairobi (Kenya), Aberystwyth (Wales) and New York (USA) explores the unexpected power of nonviolence in the protection of civilians living in the midst of violence. The objects, images, and voices originate from a selection of 26 research projects funded by the Creating Safer Space network, which have been conducted in collaboration between academics, self-protecting communities and nonviolent civilian accompaniers. The exhibition draws on experiences from Cameroon, Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, South Sudan, and Thailand, where civilians are harnessing the power of nonviolence to create safer spaces and work towards alternative presents and futures.