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Protective presence

The Racialization of Accompaniment Can Privilege Be Used Transparently?
Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping: Effectively Protecting Civilians Without Threat of Violence
Proactive Presence: a Non-violent Strategy for Civilian Protection During Armed Conflict
Sans arme face à la violence : l’intervention civile de paix
The South Sudan Weapons Free Zone
Saving Lives, Saving Souls
The civilian dimension of the African Standby Force
Asia Programme Paper: ASP PP 2010/04 Conflict and Survival: Self-protection in south-east Burma
Japan’s international peace operations in South Sudan: Peacekeeping and civilian protection dilemmas
How Civilians Survive Violence: A Preliminary Inventory
L’intervention civile de paix : idée pertinente … et dérangeante
‘Memory is the strength of our resistance’: an ‘other politics’ through embodied and material commemoration in the San José Peace Community, Colombia
Developing strategy for accompaniment
Civilians in non-international armed conflicts: The contemporary Nigerian experience
Why unarmed civilian protection is the best path to sustainable peace
"Going where we otherwise would not have gone": Protective accompaniment and election monitoring in Sri Lanka
Protection in Practice: Field-Level Strategies for Protecting Civilians from Deliberate Harm
Localisation and Locally-led Crisis Response: A Literature Review
EYEWITNESS: Peacebuilding in a War Zone: The Case of Colombian Peace Communities
The Transformative Impact of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Colombian peace communities: the role of NGOs in supporting resistance to violence and oppression
Cooperative accompaniment and peace brigades international in Sri Lanka
Protective accompaniment
Another Peacekeeping is Possible
Alter-geopolitics: Other securities are happening
Local peace zones as institutionalized conflict
The Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka: methods and impact (September 2003-January 2006)
The Privilege Problematic in International Nonviolent Accompaniment’s Early Decades Peace Brigades International Confronts the Use of Racism
Unarmed Civilian Protection The Methodology and Its Relevance for Norwegian Church-Based Organizations and Their Partners
Self-protection under strain: targeting of civilians and local responses in Northern Karen State
Security Without Weapons Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection
The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding: Southeast Asia in Focus
Civilian Peacekeeping: Preventing Violence and Making Space for Democracy
Good Practices in Nonviolent, Unarmed, Civilian to Civilian Protection Documentation of the Workshop in Paynesville (Minnesota) 21-23 October 2019
The Origins and Development of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Wielding Nonviolence in the Midst of Violence: Case Studies of Good Practices in Unarmed Civilian Protection
Issues Related to the Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations in Sudan
Exploring Civilian Protection: A Seminar Series (Seminar #1: Understanding Protection: Concepts and Practices)
Informal armies Community defence groups in South Sudan’s civil war
Protecting Civilians in Uncivil Wars
Nonviolence Cafe #7: Update on NP work in the United States
Non-military strategies for civilian protection in the DRC
“Like the military of the village” Security, justice and community defence groups in south-east South Sudan
Peace and stability in South Sudan: Challenges and recommendations
Poster de Hope for Colombia. The Grace Pilgrimage 2010 Bogotá.
Hope for Colombia. The Grace Pilgrimage 2010 Bogotá
“They Are Now Community Police”: Negotiating the Boundaries and Nature of the Government in South Sudan through the Identity of Militarised Cattle-keepers
Sustaining Peace Through Unarmed Civilian Protection
Principes et méthodes de l'intervention civile
Last Stand in Sudan?
Deciphering the jihadist threat to Mindanao’s Moro peace process
Between Culture and Concept: The Protection of Civilians in Sudan (UNMIS)
Peace Teams in the Protest-Repression Nexus: A Sociomaterial Perspective of De-escalatory Tactics
Making space for peace: international protective accompaniment in Colombia
The African Union Mission in SUDAN (AMIS) Experiences and Lessons Learned
The Role of NGOs and Broader Civil Society in Ceasefire Monitoring: Lessons from Mindanao
Forging Sustainable Peace in Mindanao: The Role of Civil Society
Protective presence

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