The Creating Safer Space network has brought together people from 70 organisations in 13 countries to better understand unarmed civilian protection and self-protection amidst violent conflict. As the network draws to a close, join us to find out more about our work, to celebrate our achievements and to look ahead!
1.00 – 2.30 pm UTC on Friday 21 February
Register for the Zoom event HERE
Programme:
- Research Findings and Achievements: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Nerve Macaspac, Beatriz Arias and Rachel Julian
- Keynote Speech: Rosemary Kabaki, Head of Mission South Sudan, Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Highlights from a selection of Creating Safer Space projects around the world
- Reflections from the audience
Bring a local drink to celebrate!
Further information about the images on the e-flyer:
- Top left: Men in South Sudan illustrating the use of grasses tied together to convey a specific symbolic meaning. When the heads of the grasses are tied together, it symbolises a clash (that there will be fighting). When the heads of the grasses are apart, as the man in the middle demonstrates with his hands, it symbolises that violence will be avoided. Photograph by Haji Elias Hillary as part of the Creating Safer Space project Visualising early warning and preparedness in civilian protection: Investigating local vernaculars of community adaptations to insecurity
- Top centre: Illustration by Wanwisa Intarakanchit, produced as part of the Creating Safer Space project Introducing Unarmed Civilian Protection in Thai Society: Opportunities and Challenges
- Top right: Still from La Fiesta theatre production, Medellin, Colombia, produced as part of the Creating Safer Space project Art that Protects: Contributions of artistic-cultural initiatives to the self-protection strategies of young people and women in the context of the urban conflict in Medellín Photograph by Laura Diosa Vera and Sofia Garcia ‘Ponchis’.
- Centre right: Illustration by Sebastián Bucheli in Civilians Protecting Civilians, produced by the Creating Safer Space project Understanding Community-level Spontaneous Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP): A Comparative Study of Initiatives in South Sudan, Myanmar and Colombia
- Bottom left: Part of a poster produced as part of 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
- Bottom centre: Drawing by a research participant, Jayapura, West Papua, as part of the Creating Safer Space project Civilian (Self-) Protection from Violent Conflict in Papua
- Bottom right: Part of a poster produced as part of 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