The Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series publishes insights by practitioners, researchers, and communities on unarmed civilian protection (UCP) and community self-protection in the midst of violent conflict.
If you are interested in publishing a working paper with us, please contact our team at creating-safer-space@aber.ac.uk.
ISSN: 2754-947X
All of our Working Papers are open access under a CC-BY licence.
Bezerra, Catarina, Laura Jiménez, Victória Barros, Community self-protection and Unarmed Civilian Protection/Accompaniment (UCP/A): a way to decolonize peace, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(4), 2025
Bezerra, Catarina, Laura Jiménez, Victória Barros, Autoprotección comunitaria, protección civil no armada y acompañamiento: una manera de descolonizar la paz, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(3), 2025
Nang Seng Raw, Arfiansyah, Mang Pi, The Diffusion of Protection Norms and Practices in Kachin and Northern Shan, Myanmar, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(2), 2025.
Arias López, Beatriz Elena, Laura Jiménez Ospina, Sandra Benítez Diosa, Adriana María Diosa Colorado, Giovanny Pérez, Intersectionality, Rights Violations, and Self-Protection in the Context of the Urban Armed Conflict in Medellín, 2022-2024, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series 3(1), 2025.
This working paper is also available in Spanish.
Arias López, Beatriz Elena, Laura Jiménez Ospina, Sandra Benítez Diosa, Adriana María Diosa Colorado, Giovanny Pérez, ‘Interseccionalidad, vulneraciones y autoprotección en el contexto del conflicto armado urbano en Medellín, 2022-2024’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 2(2), 2024
This working paper is also available in English.
Crawford, Gordon, Nancy Annan, James Kiven Kewir, Atim Evenye Niger-Thomas, Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah, Zonziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh, ‘Exploring Unarmed Civilian Self-Protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone Conflict’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 2(1), 2024
Jiménez Ospina, Laura and Beatriz Elena Arias López, ‘Unarmed Civilian Protection and Community Self-Protection in Colombia: A Literature Review’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 1(3), 2023
Jiménez Ospina, Laura and Beatriz Elena Arias López, ‘Protección civil no armada y autoprotección comunitaria en Colombia: Una revisión de la literatura’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 1(2), 2023
Julian, Rachel, Delsy Ronnie, and Rexall Kaalim, ‘Civilian Ceasefire Monitoring in Mindanao’, Creating Safer Space Working Paper Series, 1(1) 2023