Creating Safer Space Co-Investigator Beatriz Elena Arias-López and Research Assistant Laura Jiménez-Ospina will be publishing a chapter on Community Self-Protection in Colombia in the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding, which is edited by Creating Safer Space Co-Investigator Roger Mac Ginty. The chapter draws on Creating Safer Space research in Colombia. It examines […]
The Creating Safer Space exhibition will be travelling to Brazil in August. It will be on show in the Arts and Design Department of the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) from 12 – 23 August 2024. An exhibition launch will be held on 14 August from 3-5 pm, and there will be […]
The Creating Safer Space Exhibition was on show at the Carlos Gaviria Díaz Library of the University of Antioquia, Colombia, from 4 June – 30 July 2024. The exhibition was part of the Creating Safer Space regional workshop for Latin America, hosted by the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Antioquia. To introduce the […]
The Creating Safer Space project ‘Safety and dignity: Enhancing unarmed civilian protection amongst Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills’ has published an article in Rethinking Security, Weaponising Sheep: Israeli settler colonialism in the South Hebron Hills. The article is written by project co-investigator Andrew Rigby. While media attention has focused on devastating Israeli military […]
The Creating Safer Space Exhibition was on show at the Carlos Gaviria Díaz Library of the University of Antioquia, Colombia, from 4 June – 30 July 2024. The exhibition was part of the Creating Safer Space regional workshop for Latin America, hosted by the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Antioquia. To introduce the […]
The Creating Safer Space network had the pleasure of co-organising a Protection of Civilians (POC) Week side event in New York on 23 May 2024. The event was organised together with CIVIC, Global Protection Cluster (GPC)/UNHCR, HPG/ODI, Oxfam, Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), NORCAP, and PAX along with the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to […]
What do women leaders working to protect their communities from violence in South Sudan and Colombia have in common? How do we understand unarmed civilian protection from the perspective of communities living under crossfire? How has collective community work helped to confront armed actors? How do we understand self-protection beyond the physical to include an […]
The Creating Safer Space network had the pleasure of co-organising a Protection of Civilians (POC) Week side event in New York on 23 May 2024. The event was organised together with CIVIC, Global Protection Cluster (GPC)/UNHCR, HPG/ODI, Oxfam, Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), NORCAP, and PAX along with the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to […]
The Creating Safer Space project ‘Nonviolent Artivism Against Police Brutality in Kenya’ has produced a video of a poem/song by Spontaneous the Poet, entitled ‘When a Young Blood Bleeds’. Spontaneous the Poet, aka Rachel Akinyi, was a research assistant on the project, and the poem/song was written in remembrance of people who’ve lost their relatives […]
The Creating Safer Space exhibition is now available online! The travelling exhibition has previously been on show in Nairobi (Kenya), Bangkok (Thailand), Aberystwyth (Wales), New York (USA) and Medellín (Colombia), and it will soon travel to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). It is also now available online in the form of a navigable 360° virtual tour. […]
