Creating Safer Space network PI Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and project PI Sukanya Podder will be chairing a section on ‘Civilian agency in war and violent conflict: Exploring the power of self-protection’ at the 16th Pan-European Conference (PEC) of the European International Studies Association (EISA). The conference will take place in Potsdam, Germany from 5-9 September 2023. The deadline for submitting a paper or roundtable abstract to the section is 15 March 2023. See the EISA PEC 2023 website for more information: http://pec2023.eisa-net.org/section-list/. We look forward to receiving submissions from the Creating Safer Space community.