Academic Publications

2025

Arfiansyah, A., Violence and Civilian Strategy for Protection in West Papua, Indonesia. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 0(0), 2025.

Arias López, Beatriz Elena, Laura Jiménez Ospina, Arte que protege. Aportes a una autoprotección expandida en el conflicto sociopolítico urbano en Medellín Colombia, Revista Virtual Universidad Católica del Norte 76, 2025, pp. 92-122. https://doi.org/10.35575/rvucn.n76a5

Arias-López, Beatriz Elena, Laura Jiménez-Ospina, Sandra Benítez-Diosa, El papel del arte en el conflicto armado urbano en Medellín. David contra Goliat: redes vivas y autoprotección, Prospectiva 40, 2025

Arias López, Beatriz Elena, Laura Jiménez Ospina, Sandra Benítez Diosa, Adriana María Diosa Colorado, Giovanny Pérez, Intersectionality, Rights Violations, and Self-Protection in the Context of the Urban Armed Conflict in Medellín, 2022-2024, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(1), 2025.

Bezerra, Catarina, Laura Jiménez, Victória Barros, Community self-protection and Unarmed Civilian Protection/Accompaniment (UCP/A): a way to decolonize peace, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(4), 2025.

Bezerra, Catarina, Laura Jiménez, Victória Barros, Autoprotección comunitaria, protección civil no armada y acompañamiento: una manera de descolonizar la paz, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(3), 2025.

Morrison, Chas, Haji Elias Hillary, Diria Vicky Thomas, Cultures and practices of local civilian self-protection in South Sudan, Peacebuilding, 2025, DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2025.2517538.

Nang Seng Raw, Arfiansyah, Mang Pi, The Diffusion of Protection Norms and Practices in Kachin and Northern Shan, Myanmar, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(2), 2025.

Rigby, Andrew, ‘Frontier Genocide: The West Bank a year after the ICJ ruling on Gaza’, Rethinking Security, 28 January 2025.

Weigand, Florian, Riyad Anwar, Tony Neil and Abellia Anggi Wardani, Agency during Armed Conflict: Everyday Life under Competing Authorities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Journal of Global Security Studies 10(3), 2025

2024

Alfaya Cardona, Laura, Sandra Benítez Diosa, Laura Jiménez Ospina, Freddy Giovanni Pérez Cárdenas, ‘Vulneraciones y riesgos de mujeres, niños, niñas y jóvenes involucrados con las actividades de organizaciones de base artístico-culturales en el contexto del conflicto urbano en Medellín, 2022′ [Infringements and Risks of Women, Children and Youth Involved with Activities of Grassroots Artistic-Cultural Organization in the Context of Urban Conflict in Medellin, 2022], Estudios Políticos (Universidad de Antioquia), 70, pp. 108-132.

Arias-López, Beatriz Elena and Laura Jiménez-Ospina, ‘Community Self-Protection in Colombia’, in Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding, ed. by Roger Mac Ginty (London: Routledge, 2024).

Arias López, Beatriz Elena, Laura Jiménez Ospina, Sandra Benítez Diosa, Adriana María Diosa Colorado, Giovanny Pérez, ‘Interseccionalidad, vulneraciones y autoprotección en el contexto del conflicto armado urbano en Medellín, 2022-2024’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 2(2), 2024

Arias López, Beatriz Elena, Laura Jiménez Ospina, Vanessa Vasco Vargas, and Elsa Pilar Parra Mojica, ‘Autoprotección, solastalgia y cuidado en los conflictos por el agua: estudio multicaso en el oriente antioqueño, Colombia’ [Self-protection, solastalgia and care in water conflicts: a multi-case study in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia], Agua y Territorio | Water and Landscape, 25: e8111, 2025 (online first, 2024).

Crawford, Gordon, Nancy Annan, James Kiven Kewir, Atim Evenye Niger-Thomas, Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah, and Zonziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh, ‘Exploring Unarmed Civilian Self-Protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone Conflict’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 2(1), 2024.

Julian, Rachel, ‘Civilians Creating Safe Space: The Role of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping in Protection of Civilians’, Civil Wars, 26(1), 2024, pp. 187–212.

2023

Allouche, Jeremy, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Felicity Gray (eds), ‘Nonviolent Civilian Agency in Violent Conflict’, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, special issue, 1(2), 2023.

Arias López, Beatriz E., Laura Jiménez Ospina, Freddy Peréz Cardenas G., and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Art That Protects, Humanitarian Exchange, 82.12 (2023).

Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit, Jeremy Allouche and Felicity Gray, ‘Introduction: Enacting Peace Amid Violence: Nonviolent Civilian Agency in Violent Conflict‘, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, 1(2), 2023, pp. 161-180.

Furnari, Ellen, Randy Janzen, and Rosemary Kabaki, eds., Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023).

Jiménez Ospina, Laura, and Beatriz Elena Arias López, ‘Unarmed Civilian Protection and Community Self-Protection in Colombia: A Literature Review’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 1(3), 2023.

Jiménez Ospina, Laura, and Beatriz Elena Arias López, ‘Protección civil no armada y autoprotección comunitaria en Colombia: Una revisión de la literatura’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 1(2), 2023.

Julian, Rachel, Delsy Ronnie, and Rexall Kaalim, ‘Civilian Ceasefire Monitoring in Mindanao’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 1(1) 2023.

Macaspac, Nerve V., ‘Indigenous Geopolitics: Creating Indigenous Spaces of Community Self-Protection and Peace Amid Violent Conflict‘, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, 1(2), 2023, pp. 181-207.

Ridden, Louise, and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, ‘Unarmed Civilian Protection’, Humanitarian Exchange, 82.10 (2023).

Rigby, Andrew, ‘Settlers turn Soldiers: The imperative for international presence and protection in the West Bank’, Rethinking Security, 2 Nov 2023.

Rigby, Andrew, ‘Weaponising Sheep: Israeli settler colonialism in the South Hebron Hills’, Rethinking Security, 4 July 2023.

2021

Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit, Ellen Furnari, and Rachel Julian, ‘Unarmed Civilian Protection/Peacekeeping’, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021), pp. 1–12 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_178-1>

Furnari, Ellen, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, and Rachel Julian, ‘Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace, ed. by Katerina Standish, Heather Devere, Adan Suazo, and Rachel Rafferty (Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021), pp. 1–18 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3877-3_15-1>