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EVENTS in 2025
Creating Safer Space Exhibition in Cardiff
24 – 28 March 2025
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The Role of Arts in Facilitating Learning
Wednesday 26 March 2025
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Creating Safer Space: A Celebration!
Friday 21 February 2025
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Lecture: Creating Safer Space: Exploring unarmed, civilian-to-civilian protection amidst violent conflict
Wednesday 18 February 2025
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Creating Safer Space Exhibition in Brussels
Tuesday 4 – Friday 7 February 2025
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Brown Bag Lunch: Protecting Human Rights Defenders: Learning from South Sudan
Thursday 6 February 2025
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Brown Bag Lunch: Protective Accompaniment and Community-led UCP in Colombia
Wednesday 5 February 2025
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Policy Event: Civilians and Nonviolence in Crisis Preparedness and Management
Tuesday 4 February 2025
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EVENTS in 2024
Creating Safer Space Research Café: UCP and Abolition
Thursday 14 November 2024
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Creating Safer Space Exhibition in Leeds, UK
4 – 8 November 2024
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UCP/A Community of Practice Consultation with Creating Safer Space
Thursday 24 October 2024
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Creating Safer Space Exhibition in Brazil
Monday 12 – Friday 23 August 2024
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Creating Safer Space: Final Event for Latin America
Wednesday 5 June – Friday 7 June 2024
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Protection of Civilians (POC) Week Side Event
Thursday 23 May 2024
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Creating Safer Space Exhibition at the United Nations
Monday 29 April – Friday 3 May 2024
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Creating Safer Space at the WOW Film Festival
Wednesday 20 March – Sunday 31 March 2024
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Creating Safer Space Exhibition in Aberystwyth
Monday 11 March – Thursday 28 March 2024
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Creating Safer Space: Asian Regional Research Forum and Exhibition (Bangkok, Thailand)
Tuesday 20 February – Thursday 22 February 2024
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Creating Safer Space: Final Event for Africa and the Middle East (Nairobi, Kenya)
Wednesday 24 January – Friday 26 January
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EVENTS in 2023
Research Café: Top tips for publishing in academic journals
Monday 30 October at 1.30 – 2.30 pm UTC
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3rd UCP Research Forum on Asia
Tuesday 26 September at 12.30 – 2.00 pm UTC
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2nd UCP Research Forum on Asia
Wednesday 23 August at 12.30 – 2.00 pm UTC
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Research Café: The Centrality of Relationships to Nonviolence and UCP
Monday 21 August at 2.00 – 3.30 pm UTC
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Safeguarding in Practice
Thursday 22 June at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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Encuentro caribeño-latinoamericano por la justicia climática/ Caribbean-Latin American meeting for climate justice
Medellín, Junio 15-17.
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Africa Regional Research Cafe on Sudan
Wednesday 31 May at 12.00 – 1.00 pm UTC
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Arte que protege/ Arts that Protect
Lugar: teatro Pablo Tobón Uribe , Medellin, Colombia. 7 PM. Entrada libre
Pablo Tobón Uribe theater, Medellin, Colombia. 7 PM. Free admission
Research Café: Visual Policy Briefs
Thursday 27 April 2023, 12:30 – 1:30pm UTC
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Innovation in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Unarmed Civilian Protection, meeting 3
Monday 20 February 2023, 2pm – 3:30pm UTC
N+ Creating Safer Space Africa regional networking workshop
Tuesday 7 March 2023, 12:00 UTC / 15:00 EAT
N+ Creating Safer Space Colombia regional workshop “La paz total en Colombia”
Saturday 11 March 2023, 10:00-12:00 COT (Colombia) / 15:00-17:00 UTC (UK)
NEW START TIME: 10:30 (Colombia) / 15:30 (UK)
Community meeting on self-protection around water and other common goods in eastern Antioquia
N+ Project “Water conflicts, violations and forms of self-protection”
Municipality of San Luis Antioquia, Colombia; 21 and 22 April 2023
Participants: Research team; community leaders and members of social organisations in eastern Antioquia
Training Course on Unarmed Civilian Protection
Saturday 7 January – Friday 17 March
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Innovation in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Unarmed Civilian Protection, meeting 2
Tuesday 24 January at 2 – 4pm UTC
EVENTS in 2022
Innovation in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Unarmed Civilian Protection, meeting 1
Thursday 1 December 2022 at 2 – 4pm UTC
Research Café: Introducing Unarmed Civilian Protection in Thai Society
Thursday 17 November 2022 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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Welcome Meeting for Creating Safer Space Grant Holders
Thursday 20 October 2022 at 12.00 – 2.00 pm UTC
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Research Café: Writing a Successful Grant Application
Thursday 22 September 2022 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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Research Café: Strategies for Community Protection and dealing with Election Violence
Wednesday 20 July 2022 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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Workshop on how to write a grant application: Spanish
Thursday 23 June 2022 at 2.00 – 3.00 pm UTC
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Workshop on how to write a grant application: English
Thursday 23 June 2022 at 9.00 – 10.00 am UTC
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Training Course: Strengthening Civilian Capacities to Protect Civilians
Saturday 26 March – Saturday 4 June 2022
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Research Café: Using Textiles as a Research Method
Thursday 17 March 2022 at 12.30 – 2.00 pm UTC
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Workshop on how to write grant applications: Spanish
Friday 11 March 2022 at 14.00 – 15.00 pm UTC
Workshop on how to write grant applications: English
Wednesday 9 March 2022 at 08.00 – 09.00 am UTC
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Workshop on how to write grant applications: English
Thursday 3 March 2022 at 10.00 – 11.00 am UTC
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Information Session on Creating Safer Space Research Grants: English
Wednesday 2 March at 08.00 – 09.00 am UTC
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Workshop on how to write grant applications: Spanish
Friday 18 February 2022 at 14.00 – 15.00 pm UTC
Research Café: Using Drawing as a Research Method
Thursday 17 February 2022 at 12.30 – 2.00 pm UTC
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Information Session on Creating Safer Space Research Grants: Spanish
Tuesday 1 February 2022 at 3.00 – 4.00 pm UTC
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Information Session on Creating Safer Space Research Grants: English
Tuesday 1 February 2022 at 10.00 – 11.00 am UTC
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Research Café: UCP, Civil Resistance, and Human Rights Defense
Thursday 20 January 2022 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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EVENTS in 2021
Research Café: The Everyday Peace Indicators Project
Thursday 18 November 2021 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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Research Café: Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) in Kenya
Thursday 21 October 2021 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
Workshop on Security and Protection for Researchers: Digital Security: English
Wednesday 30 June 2021 at 7.30 – 10.30 am UTC
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Research Proposal and Research Writing
Friday 24 June 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for Africa (Strathmore University Business School)
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Workshop on Security and Protection for Researchers: Digital Security: Spanish
Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 2.00 – 5.30 pm UTC
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Active Listening, Implementing Community Scorecard, and Generating Data for Trauma Healing
Thursday 17 June 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for East Africa (Strathmore University Business School)
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Workshop on Security and Protection for Researchers: Risk Analysis and Protection Plans: English
Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 7.30 – 10.30 am UTC
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Data Generation with Creative Research Methods
Thursday 10 June 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for East Africa (Strathmore University Business School)
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Workshop on Security and Protection for Researchers: Risk Analysis and Protection Plans: Spanish
Wednesday 9 June 2021 at 2.00 – 5.30 pm UTC
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New Research Method in Studying Elements and Ecosystems of Information Disorder
Saturday 5 June 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for South-East Asia (Chulalongkorn University)
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Research Café: Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) in Myanmar
Thursday 27 May 2021 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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Participatory Research Methods
Thursday 20 May 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for East Africa (Strathmore University Business School)
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Participatory Research: Role Play
Thursday 20 May 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for East Africa (Strathmore University Business School)
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Participatory Research: Case Studies
Thursday 20 May 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for Africa (Strathmore University Business School)
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Using Open Source Digital Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for UCP Research
Thursday 20 May 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for South-East Asia (Chulalongkorn University)
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Creative Approach for Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) Research: Drawing and Storyboard
Wednesday 5 May 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for South-East Asia (Chulalongkorn University)
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Arts-based Approach to Participatory Action Research: Tribal Education Methodology (TEM)
Wednesday 5 May 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for South-East Asia (Chulalongkorn University)
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Research Café: Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) in South Sudan
Thursday 29 April 2021 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP): Why Research?
Saturday 16 April 2021
Organised by the Creating Safer Space regional team for South-East Asia (Chulalongkorn University)
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Training Course: Strengthening Civilian Capacities to Protect Civilians
Thursday 1 April – Friday 11 June 2021
Research Café: Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) in Colombia
Thursday 25 March 2021 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
Research Café: Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) in the Philippines
Thursday 25 February 2021 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC
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