March 2025. Policy Brief by the Creating Safer Space project ‘Civilian (Self-) Protection from Violent Conflict in Papua: Exploring Local Infrastructures and Initiatives’. Authors: Arfiansyah, Reza Idria and Delsy Ronnie
This documentary explores the potential of local semilleros (seedbeds) in facilitating community-based research on strategies for the protection of unarmed civilians and wider issues of (in)security. This documentary was produced by participants in the Creating Safer Space project “Community strategies for Unarmed Civilian Protection in South-West Colombia: local experiences and lessons learned”. The documentary was […]
The Creating Safer Space Exhibition was on show at Quaker House Brussels from 4-7 February 2025, and it was accompanied by three policy events. On the first day, we held a policy event on “Civilians and Nonviolence in Crisis Preparedness and Management”, with several speakers: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Rachel Julian (Creating Safer Space), […]
The Creating Safer Space Exhibition was on show at Quaker House Brussels from 4-7 February 2025. On the first day, we held a policy event on “Civilians and Nonviolence in Crisis Preparedness and Management”, with several speakers: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Rachel Julian (Creating Safer Space), Rosemary Kabaki (Head of Mission, Nonviolent Peaceforce South […]
Areas of expertise: Berit is professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK, and a teacher and researcher with over 20 years of experience in conflict and peacebuilding related research and analysis. She has carried out fieldwork-based research in the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo), Latin America (Colombia and Peru), and Southeast Asia (Myanmar). […]
Policy Brief 3 / 2025. For government and civil society in Wales. Policy Brief by the Creating Safer Space network, written by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Rachel Julian, and Nerve Macaspac. The policy brief is available in English and Welsh.
The Creating Safer Space network has published a new brochure. The brochure provides information about our activities and achievements over the last five years. It also features a summary of our key research findings, and an outline of the Creating Safer Space model of carrying out research with and for (not “on”) self-protecting communities and […]
March 2025 Factsheet by the Creating Safer Space project “Exploring unarmed civilian self-protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict”. Authors/Auteurs: Gordon Crawford, Nancy Annan, James Kiven Kewir, Atim Evenye Niger-Thomas, Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah, Zonziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh. Available in English and French.
Areas of Expertise: Rachel is professor of Peace Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and an internationally recognised researcher working on Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping/Protection and the way we recognise the lives and voices of those affected by violence and crisis. She has worked with community partners in Southeast Asia and East Africa to explore how […]
