Brochure – Creating Safer Space (English)
Brochure – Creando Espacio Más Seguro (Spanish)
March 2025
Find out about the Creating Safer Space network: Our activities and achievements, our research findings, and our 26 commissioned projects in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South-East Asia.
Buenaventura: Thinking-feeling methodologies of resistance and re-existence, Participatory Action Research Semillero Vol. 2, July 2025 (English)
Buenaventura: Metodologías sentipensantes de resistencia y re-existencia, Semillero de Investigación IAP Vol. 2, Julio 2025 (Spanish)
This brochure is an output of the project “Community strategies for Unarmed Civilian Protection in South-West Colombia: local experiences and lessons learned“.
It is accompanied by four videos about the methodologies discussed, which can be accessed HERE.
UCP in Action: Using peaceful and unarmed responses to conflict management
December 2024
This report is an output of the project “Using multimedia approaches to increase visibility of and preference for Unarmed Civilian Protection approaches”.
Strengthening Local Capacities for Unarmed Civilian Protection in Uasin Gishu, Kenya
May 2025
Authors: Clinton Gwako and Selline Korir (Rural Women Peace Link)
This report is an output of the project, “Strengthening Local Capacities for Unarmed Civilian Protection in Uasin Gishu, Kenya”
Factsheet: Unarmed Civilian Self-Protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone Conflict (English)
March 2025
Authors/Auteurs: Gordon Crawford, Nancy Annan, James Kiven Kewir, Atim Evenye Niger-Thomas, Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah, Zonziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh
This guide is an output of the project ‘Exploring unarmed civilian self-protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict’
Edited by Aung Kyaw Thein and Elliot Lodge
March 2025
This report is an output of the project ‘Scholars at Risk: Understanding vulnerability and violence faced by Myanmar refugee scholars in northern Thailand’
Introducing Unarmed Civilian Protection in Thai Society (Thai)
By Mark Tamthai, Chantana Wungaeo and Chaowat Moonpakdee
March 2025
This report is an output of the Creating Safer Space project “Introducing Unarmed Civilian Protection in Thai Society: Opportunities and Challenges”.
Practitioners’ Guide for Unarmed Civilian Protection in Cameroon
By Kiven James Kewir, Nancy Annan, Gordon Crawford and Sakah Bernard Nsaidzedze
December 2024
This guide is an output of the project ‘Exploring unarmed civilian self-protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict’
October 2024.
Only available in Thai.
This report is an output of the project ‘UCP in Southern Thailand: Developing civilian protection guidelines for violence-prone communities’
Semillero de Investigacion IAP (Spanish)
Participatory Action Research Semillero (English)
By Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo, Jesús Alfonso Flórez López, Natalia Campo Castro, Simon Rushton, Adrián Alzate, Claudia Vanessa Rebolledo Ulcué, María Isabel Quintero, Osmel Alexis Hoyos
February 2024
This curriculum is an output of the project ‘Community strategies for Unarmed Civilian Protection in South-West Colombia: local experiences and lessons learned’.
Edited by Mutia Brendaline, with an Introduction by Gordon Crawford.
This anthology of poems is an output of the project “Exploring unarmed civilian self-protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict“.
January 2024
This version of the brochure shares initial research findings from each of our 26 research projects in Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. A new version of the brochure will be published in 2025, with the final research results.
Civilians Protecting Civilians
By Karen Arteaga Garzón and Andrei Gómez-Suárez with illustrations by Sebastián Bucheli. February 2024.
Por Karen Arteaga Garzón y Andrei Gómez-Suárez con illustrationes de Sebastián Bucheli. Febrero 2024.
These policy briefs is an output of the project “Understanding Community-level Spontaneous Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP): A Comparative Study of Initiatives in South Sudan, Myanmar and Colombia“.
Corporación Jurídica Libertad, Medellín, 2023
This brochure is an output of the project “The Social Process of Guarantees of Antioquia, Colombia, an experience of unarmed civil protection with indigenous and peasant communities of Bajo Cauca“.
Let the rivers be for life! (English)
Que los ríos sean para la vida! (Spanish)
These brochures are an output of the project “Water conflicts, violations and forms of self-protection: A multi-case study in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia“.
Art Allies / Alianzarte / Hulafaa Alfun
This brochure is an output of the project “Strategies for Safety and Solidarity: Understanding protection through creativity in South Sudan and Colombia“.
Unarmed Civilian Protection and Conditions of Nonviolence in Thai Society
A visual note summary from a roundtable discussion hosted by the Creating Safer Space project “Introducing Unarmed Civilian Protection in Thai Society: Opportunities and Challenges”. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Political Science, 18 December 2022.