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 […]
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.
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 […]
The Creating Safer Space project ‘Scholars at Risk: Understanding vulnerability and violence faced by Myanmar refugee scholars in northern Thailand’ has published a report, Understanding Practices of Protection and Resilience: Co-producing knowledge among Myanmar scholars-in-exile. The report is edited by Aung Kyaw Thein and Elliot Lodge. It investigates the protection mechanisms and resilience strategies of […]
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Creating Safer Space (CSS) is building effective communication routes, knowledge base and collaboration between researchers, practitioners and policymakers to ensure unarmed civilians are included and recognised in protecting themselves and their communities from violence across the world. CSS sits in a unique space which welcomes researchers and practitioners from affected countries to share their knowledge […]
Beth sy’n digwydd pan fydd sifiliaid yn dewis gweithredu heb arfau i amddiffyn eu hunain rhag trais? Pa mor rymusol yw ymwrthod â thrais wrth lunio presennol a dyfodol pobl? Y Deml Heddwch ac Iechyd King Edward VII Ave, Caerdydd CF10 3AP 24–28 Mawrth 2025, 10am – 4pm DIGWYDDIAD AGORIADOL: 7yh dydd Sadwrn 22 Mawrth […]
Click here for Welsh medium version. The Creating Safer Space Exhibition will be on show in Cardiff from 24–28 March 2025, daily from 10am–4pm, at the Temple of Peace and Health (King Edward VII Ave, Cardiff CF10 3AP). You are warmly invited to the OPENING EVENT with drinks: 7pm on Saturday 22 March 2025 – […]
The Creating Safer Space Exhibition visited Leeds Beckett University from 4 – 8 November 2024. The exhibition explores the unexpected power of nonviolence in the protection of civilians living in the midst of violence. The objects, images, and voices originate from a selection of 26 research projects funded by the Creating Safer Space network, which […]
The Creating Safer Space project ‘Understanding Community-level Spontaneous Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP): A Comparative Study of Initiatives in South Sudan, Myanmar and Colombia’ has published a policy brief, Spontaneous Unarmed Civilian Protection in Rumbek and Juba, South Sudan. The policy brief is written by Luke Abbs, Flora Francis Bringi and Moses John. It explores the […]
