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Arte que protege e interseccionalidad 5: Categoría Sexo y Género – Renovación Corporación Artística
Arte que protege e interseccionalidad 4: Categoría Étnica – Arlequín y los juglares
Arte que protege e interseccionalidad 3: Categoria Estatus Socioeconómico – Biocomunidad
Arte que protege e interseccionalidad 2: Categoria Edad – Robledo Venga Parchemos
Arte que protege e interseccionalidad 1: Categoría Cosmovisión – Barrio Comparsa
Capitulo 3: Conexiones que sostienen
Capitulo 2: Más fuertes que la Guerra
Capitulo 1: Cambiemos los juguetes, cambiemos la vuelta
Introduction: Enacting Peace Amid Violence: Nonviolent Civilian Agency in Violent Conflict
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict
The emergence and fortunes of peace communities
Nonviolent Knowledge(s) and Unarmed Civilian Protection
Creating Safer Space Newsletter January 2024
Creating Safer Space Newsletter March 2024
Creating Safer Space Newsletter April 2024
Creating Safer Space Newsletter May 2024 - Urgent Announcement
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Creating Safer Space Newsletter January 2022
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Creating Safer Space Newsletter November 2022
Creating Safer Space Newsletter November 2021
Creating Safer Space Newsletter December 2021
Reducing violence and strengthening the protection of civilians through community dialogue with armed actors
The Glass Ceiling for UCP in Inter-Governmental Organizations
Unarmed Bodyguards
The Racialization of Accompaniment Can Privilege Be Used Transparently?
Good Practices in Nonviolent Unarmed Civilian to Civilian Protection: Documentation of the Workshop in Nairobi 12-14 November 2018
Soldiers, Civilians and Peacekeeping – Evidence and False Assumptions
Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping: Effectively Protecting Civilians Without Threat of Violence
Examining Unarmed Civilian Protection in the UN Context
Session 2 – Opportunities to Overcome the Peacebuilding Coherence Dilemma – Dr. Ozonnia Ojielo
Report of the African Standby Force Civilian Dimension Technical Rostering Workshop
Building Relationships, Building Peace The Role of Civilians and Civil Society in Preventing Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Cases of the Grand Nord (2000–2006) and Ituri (2003–2009)
Mainstreaming Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Proactive Presence: a Non-violent Strategy for Civilian Protection During Armed Conflict
Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference
The Cost of Treating Urban Violence as a "Public Health' Problem
Women and Peacebuilding in GuineaBissau
Crossing the line: Transhumance in transition along the Sudan-South Sudan border
Standing ‘bare hands’ against the Syrian regime: the turn to armed resistance and the question of civilian protection
Community-based protection: the ICRC approach
Protection in the occupied Palestinian territories
The South Sudan Weapons Free Zone
Shared risks and research dilemmas on a Peace Brigades International team in Sri Lanka
Peace at last? Appraisal of the Addis Ababa Peace and Security Cooperation Framework and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2098 for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Reclaiming protection of civilians under international humanitarian law: Reflections from the Oslo global conference
South Sudan Rejects Deployment of Regional Protection Force amidst Worsening Security Situation
Saving Lives, Saving Souls
Local protection in Zimbabwe
Dehumanization amidst massacres: An examination of Dinka-Nuer intergroup attitudes in South Sudan.
The Decolonial Option: Toward an Ethic of Self-Securing
Pacifism is dirty: towards an ethico-political defence
Pacifism: the anatomy of a subjugated knowledge
Education and Armed Conflict in Sudan and South Sudan: The Role of Teachers in Conflict Resolution and Peace Building
Communal conflict, civil war, and the state: Complexities, connections, and the case of Sudan
Exhuming Trends in Ethnic Conflict and Cooperation in Africa: Some selected states
Access to Resources and Opportunities in Eastern Sudan: Consolidating the Comprehensive Peace Agreement Nairobi, Kenya, 14-17 February 2005
South Sudan’s December 2013 conflict: Bolting state-building fault lines with social capital
Book review: Phases of conflict in Africa
The Currency of Connections: The establishment and reconfiguration of informal livelihood groups in Bentiu, South Sudan
The Contribution of the Diaspora to the Reconstruction of the Sudan
Regional Land Context for Peaceful Co-existence in Kenya
Peacebuilding Handbook
Ethiopian customary dispute resolution mechanisms Forms of restorative Justice?
The civilian dimension of the African Standby Force
Just Peace ethic Prepared for April 2019 “Path of nonviolence: Towards a culture of peace” workshop
Enhancing the Educational Outcomes for South Sudanese Refugee Youth: Laying the Groundwork for International Comparative Research
Lessons for IGAD: Mediation arising from the South Sudan peace talks
Introduction - People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity
Leaning into conflict: Reflections from South Sudan
1999: PBI abre su oficina en Medellín
2000: El retorno a Cacarica
1995: El Magdalena Medio en el centro de la violencia socio-política
1998: Persecución a organizaciones defensoras de derechos humanos
Strengthening institutional capability to adopt conflict sensitive approaches Five lessons from the Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility in South Sudan, 2016–2018
Asia Programme Paper: ASP PP 2010/04 Conflict and Survival: Self-protection in south-east Burma
Deploying to Protect: The Effect of Military Peacekeeping Deployments on Violence Against Civilians
Civilian capacities in the aftermath of conflict: Towards strengthened partnerships with African member states
Addressing Two Problems with Peacebuilding
Resolving African crises: Leadership role for African States and the African Union in Darfur
Japan’s international peace operations in South Sudan: Peacekeeping and civilian protection dilemmas
Children, a global ethic, and zones of peace
Establishing Salvadoran zones of peace
The Changing Vision of “Just Peace” in Catholic Social Tradition
Introduction: The Return of Pacifism to IR
Southern Sudan at odds with itself: Dynamics of conflict and predicaments of peace
Accounting for violence in Eastern Congo: Young people’s narratives of war and peace in North and South Kivu
Traditional justice and reconciliation after violent conflict: Learning from African experiences
Identity and Peace: Reconfiguring Conflict Resolution in Africa
Justice and Reconciliation during Sudan’s Post-2011 Transition
Partners for Peace: Community and Conflict Resolution
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region as a peacebuilding instrument for civil society organisations
Communal conflict, communal peacemaking and governmental intervention in Nigeria Lessons from the Ife-Modakeke crisis
Capítulo 4: Impactos de la violencia, part 3/ Chapter 4: Impacts of violene
How to build peace in fragile contexts?: Strategies of defense and return to the territory
The Gospel draws us further: a just peace ethic
Community counts: The social reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia
More than a line: Sudan's North-South border
How Civilians Survive Violence: A Preliminary Inventory
Who Really Protects Civilians?
1994: El Padre Javier Giraldo cuenta la llegada de PBI a Colombia
Support of the Reconstruction of the Social Fabric: Self-Care as a Political Project
The Civilian Side of Peacekeeping: New Research Avenues
Session 2 – Opportunities to Overcome the Peacebuilding Coherence Dilemma
South Sudan: waiting for peace to come
Protecting civilians in African Union peace support operations: key cases and lessons learned
Capítulo 5: Diferentes aspectos de la protección/ Chapter 5: Different aspects of protection
A virtue-based just peace ethic
Making accompaniment effective
Tunnel Vision or Kaleidoscope: Competing Concepts on Sudan Identity and National Integration
Building on the Naivasha Protocols to Establish Long-Term Peace in the Sudan
Irregular warfare in African conflicts
Towards an indigenous model of conflict resolution: Reinventing women’s roles as traditional peacebuilders in neo-colonial Africa
The never-ending pursuit of the Lord’s Resistance Army
Knowledge for Peace: Transitional Justice, knowledge production and an agenda for research
‘Memory is the strength of our resistance’: an ‘other politics’ through embodied and material commemoration in the San José Peace Community, Colombia
Side by Side Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment
Navigating the Dilemmas of Unarmed Accompaniment on the US-Mexico Border
Developing strategy for accompaniment
Strategic Peacebuilding The Role of Civilians and Civil Society in Preventing Mass Atrocities in South Sudan The Cases of the SPLM Leadership Crisis (2013), the Military Standoff at General Malong’s House (2017), and the Wau Crisis (2016–17)
The role of Religious Leaders in Encouraging Reconciliation
PEACETALK: Role of CSOs in Peace Building and Political Transition
Civilians in non-international armed conflicts: The contemporary Nigerian experience
The peace process in Mindanao the Philippines: evolution and lessons learned
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
Secretary Deles urges civil society to take part in peace process
Caught Between Two Cultures: When aid in South Sudan is pulled between local norms and western systems
Girl Ambassadors for Peace: Young Women and Girls Read and Lead to Counter Violent Extremism and Build Peace
Some considerations for civilian-peacekeeper protection alliances
Capítulo 3: Impacto de la violencia, parte 2/ Chapter 3: Impacts of violence, part 2
Protecting civilians in civil war: The institution of the ATCC in Colombia
Emerging Diversity in Security Practices in Kenya’s Devolved Constitution
Non-coercive defence diplomacy for conflict prevention
Protecting civilians in the Kachin borderlands, Myanmar Key threats and local responses
The role of ex-offenders in implementing the Community Work Programme as a crime and violence prevention initiative
Civilian Peacekeeping: a barely tapped resource
Devolved Government within the Post-Naivasha Sudanese Constitution: A Key to Sustainable Peace in Darfur
Seeking Peace in South Sudan: The Contributions and Challenges of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Protection in Practice: Field-Level Strategies for Protecting Civilians from Deliberate Harm
Women’s Roles: In Brief
Protection manual for Human Rights Defenders
What does PBI Colombia do?
De-escalating Conflict, Confidence Building and Conciliation
Learning from the Nuba: Civilian resilience and self-protection during conflict
Chapter 1: Being a Women Defender
Violent Peace: Local Perceptions of Threat and Insecurity in Post-Conflict Colombia
Localisation and Locally-led Crisis Response: A Literature Review
The role of civil society in conflict resolution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1998–2006: An appraisal
Local engagement with armed groups in the midst of violence
Data for figures in: 'Protecting civilians in civil war: The institution of the ATCC in Colombia'
Australian Unarmed Peacekeepers on Bougainville, 1997–2003
Mindanao Peace Process and Roles of Civil Society
Incorporating unarmed civilian peacekeeping into Canadian foreign policy: what do Canadians think?
The Role of Civilians in Preventing and Mitigating Mass Atrocities Summary of Key Findings from the Simon-Skjodt Center’s Research Initiative | July 21, 2020
Traditions of Conflict Resolution In Burma
Learning from survivor and community-led crisis responses in the Philippines
The unarmed civilians bringing peace to South Sudan
Rebelocracy: Social Order in the Colombian Civil War
Myanmar - Surviving the Storm: Self-protection and survival in the Delta
Harbingers of Hope Peace Initiatives in Colombia
Powering to Peace: Integrated Civil Resistance and Peacebuilding Strategies
Refugee decision-making processes, community-based protection and potential voluntary repatriation to Myanmar
Learning from community-led resilience responses in the occupied Palestinian territories
South Sudan: unarmed civilian protection
EYEWITNESS: Peacebuilding in a War Zone: The Case of Colombian Peace Communities
Downsizing in UN Peacekeeping: The Impact on Civilian Peacekeepers and the Missions Employing Them
Military involvement in postconflict transformation in African peace-building
Peacekeeping operations and adjustment of soldiers in Sudan Peace in the hearts and minds of soldiers?
Unarmed civilians or military peacekeepers? An assessment of peacekeeping tactics in South Sudan
Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War: Evidence from Jos, Nigeria
Introduction: rethinking the relevance of pacifism for security studies and IR
Let's take peace to pieces!
‘Making’ the Territory: The Spatial Politics of Peasant Communities
Preparing for self-preservation
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature
The Transformative Impact of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Zones of Peace in Colombia’s Borderland
Stabilization and Local Conflicts: Communal and Civil War in South Sudan
Shifting targets: the effect of peacekeeping on postwar violence
Colombian peace communities: the role of NGOs in supporting resistance to violence and oppression
Relationships Are Critical for Peacekeeping
Zones of peace and local peace processes in Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone
Cooperative accompaniment and peace brigades international in Sri Lanka
Nonpartisanship, interventionism and legality in accompaniment: comparative analyses of Peace Brigades International, Christian Peacemaker Teams, and the International Solidarity Movement
Wrestling with Another Human Being: The Merits of a Messy, Power-Laden Pacifism
Protective accompaniment
On a Peak in Darien: Community Initiatives in Urabá, Colombia
Agency & peacebuilding: the promise of local zones of peace
Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War
Choosing to engage Armed groups and peace processes
The quest for happiness as an underlying motive for violent conflict in Africa
Promoting Sustainable Peace in Sudan through Post-Conflict Justice and Reconciliation
Territories of peace: alter-territorialities in Colombia’s San José de Apartadó Peace Community
Burma - Dialogue with the generals: the sound of one hand clapping
Another Peacekeeping is Possible
Alter-geopolitics: Other securities are happening
Peasant Communities, Peacebuilding, and Social Change in Colombia
Partnering to Protect: Conceptualizing Civil–Military Partnerships for the Protection of Civilians
Nudging Armed Groups: How Civilians Transmit Norms of Protection
Local peace zones as institutionalized conflict
Civilian Action in Conflict Settings: The Case of Colombia
Explaining Recidivism of Ex-combatants in Colombia
Creating knowledge in and about conflicted contexts: How peacekeepers know what works
1996: Año de inestabilidad política
Cure Violence: A Public Health Model to Reduce Gun Violence
The Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka: methods and impact (September 2003-January 2006)
Effective community-based protection programming: lessons from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Capítulo 2: Impacto de la violencia, parte 1/ Chapter 2: Impacts of violence, part 1
Gender Dimensions of (Non)Violence in Communal Conflict: The Case of Jos, Nigeria
Privilege, Empowerment, and Nonviolent Intervention
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
Filipino zones of peace
Global Network Of Women PeaceBuilders
Self-protection under strain: targeting of civilians and local responses in Northern Karen State
Security Without Weapons Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection
Researching with ‘Local’ Associates: Power, Trust and Data in an Interpretive Project on Communities’ Conflict Knowledge in Myanmar
What is the relationship between the situated learning of Unarmed Civilian Protection workers and gendered power dynamics?
Community Self-Protection Strategies How Peacekeepers Can Help or Harm
Community-based protection mechanisms
The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding: Southeast Asia in Focus
Good Practices in Nonviolent, Unarmed, Civilian to Civilian Protection Documentation of the Workshop in Manila, 7-9 December, 2017
From expert to experiential knowledge: exploring the inclusion of local experiences in understanding violence in conflict
Three Peace Forces: The Khudai Khidmitgars, Shanti Sena and Nonviolent Peaceforce
This is how we survived': Civilian agency and humanitarian protection
The Notion of Space in International Accompaniment
Understanding effectiveness in peacekeeping operations: Exploring the perspectives of frontline peacekeepers
“Will you really protect us without a gun? Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping in the U.S.”
Working Paper International accompaniment for the protection of human rights: scenarios, objectives and strategies
Insurgent Peace: Community-Led Peacebuilding of Indigenous Peoples in Sagada, Philippines
The role of relationships in the emergence of peace
The participation of women in the Mindanao peace process
The (self) protection of civilians in South Sudan: Popular and community justice practices
Civil Society: A Resource for Peace
Good Practices in Nonviolent, Unarmed, Civilian to Civilian Protection Documentation of the Workshop in Beirut, 18 – 20 June 2018
Securing space for local peacebuilding: the role of international and national civilian peacekeepers
Civilian Self-Protection and Civilian Targeting in Armed Conflicts: Who Protects Civilians?
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
Systems for Effective Regional Relations: Ensuring Stability Around the Abyei Area
Unarmed civilian peacekeeping: a potential response to peacekeepers’ and critical scholars’ parallel critiques of multidimensional peace operations?
Significance of Societal Customs in the South Sudan Civil War Resolution
The Sudanese Peace Process
Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
The Origins and Development of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Shifting Practices of Peace: What is the current state of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping?
Wielding Nonviolence in the Midst of Violence: Case Studies of Good Practices in Unarmed Civilian Protection
The challenges of power-sharing and transitional justice in post-civil war African countries: Comparing Burundi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone
Sudan's National Dialogue Conference: The Permissible Questions
Issues Related to the Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations in Sudan
Policies That Protect: The African Union and the Protection of Civilians
The Involvement of African Armed Forces in Resolving African Conflicts: A Case Study of the AU Mission in Sudan
The Bear Clan Patrol and Community Protection
2012: Asesinato del líder reclamante de tierra Manuel Ruiz y de su hijo Samir, en Curbaradó
2002: En el corazón de la violencia
2016: Escuela de la Memoria-Para que la historia nunca se repita
2019: Comunidades resistentes en fuego cruzado
Political leadership and conflict resolution: An African example
A Cacophony of Ideas and Practices: UNMIS and the Protection of Civilians in Jonglei State, South Sudan
Between a rock and a hard place The UN and the protection of civilians in South Sudan
Global civil society initiative to create a large-scale, unarmed peaceforce. A New Instrument for the Peace builders’ Toolkit
Local Peace Processes in Sudan: A Baseline Study
Exploring Civilian Protection: A Seminar Series (Seminar #1: Understanding Protection: Concepts and Practices)
Peacebuilding Coordination in African Countries: Transitioning from Conflict Transitioning from Conflict Case Studies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and South Sudan
Analysis of the role of civil society in peace building of post conflict South Sudan after signing of comprehensive peace agreement:2005-2012
Strengthening local and national infrastructures for peace in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho and South Sudan
The Security-Development Nexus and the Imperative of Peacebuilding with Special Reference to the African Context
Dealing with the past: The youth and post-war recovery in southern Sudan
The currency of connections: Why local support systems are integral to helping people recover in South Sudan
Every Voice Matters: An Ushirikiano Mwema Kwa Usalama (UMKU) publication
2011: El campesinado resistente
2003: Luz de esperanzas
2008: En medio del escándalo de los "falsos positivos" y de la parapolítica
Saferworld's strategic plan 2017-21
Resisting Violence Growing a Culture of Nonviolent Action in South Sudan
The challenges of preventive diplomacy: The United Nations’ post-Cold War experiences in Africa
Second Generation Disarmament and Reitegration (DDR) Practices in Peace Operations A Contribution to the New Horizon Discussion on Challenges and Opportunities for UN Peacekeeping
Gender and community security
Challenges to Protection of Civilians in South Sudan A Warning from Jonglei State
Informal armies Community defence groups in South Sudan’s civil war
Nhimbe Utilising a Traditional Practice in Community Peacebuilding
Mozambique’s peace decades since the end of the conflict: Inclusive or managed democracy?
"Don’t take this away from us again”: Citizen perceptions of peace in South Sudan
Lessons on counter-terror and countering violent extremism
Gender and displacement South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda
Civil–military coordination
Learn to play and play to learn: building resilience of local communities in South Sudan’s conflict through games
The National Dialogue Initiative in South Sudan Assessing Progress and Pitfalls
2001: Resistencia de las mujeres en Barrancabermeja
In it for the long haul? Lessons on peacebuilding in South Sudan
African Approaches to Building Peace and Social Solidarity
Transitional justice and gender in Uganda: Making peace, failing women during the peace negotiation process
Hold the Line: a guide to defending democracy
Living in “No Peace—No War”: Fluctuating Governance Among Armed Actors in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
2013: Refugio humanitario en el Nordeste Antioqueño
2004: La dificultad de ser mujer defensora de derechos humanos
2006: Colectivo de abogadas acompañan la resistencia en el Catatumbo
2007: Volviendo del exilio
2014: El primer espacio humanitario en contexto urbano en el mundo
2015: Violencia y protección del medio ambiente en el Casanare
2017: "¡El Pueblo no se rinde carajo!"
Justice for peace in South Sudan Civil society perspectives
Strengthening ethical political leadership for sustainable peace and social justice in Africa: Uganda as a case study
Building a Culture of Protection: 20 Years of Security Council Engagement on the Protection of Civilians
Peace building and transformation from below: Indigenous Approaches to Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation among the Pastoral Societies in the Borderlands of Eastern Africa.
The UNMIS in South Sudan: Challenges & Dilemmas
Dealing with new dynamics of post-war violence: The Role of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) during July 2016 crisis
Non-Military Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations: Experiences and Lessons
International Peace-Keeping Operation: A Breach of International Law on Sovereignty of States?
Civilian Protection in the Eastern DRC: Evaluation of the Monusco peacekeeping operation
Protection from Afar How to Support People in Turkey and Visitors to Turkey in Cases of Persecution and Arbitrary Arrest
Capítulo 6: el enfoque feminista en la protección/ Chapter 6: the feminist focus in protection
Protecting Civilians in Uncivil Wars
Nonviolent Resistance in Power Asymmetries
Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping Documentation of a symposium held in Bonn, 10th of October 2015
Civilian Protection: The Imperative Role of Civil Society
How to Make Peace Work in South Sudan Criteria for More Effective Collective Conflict Management in South Sudan
South Sudan’s Transition: Citizens’ Perception of Peace
The African Union Mission in Somalia and Civilian Protection Challenges
Working towards and African peacekeeping capability: Key issues, challenges and dilemmas in Darfur
Nonviolence Cafe #7: Update on NP work in the United States
Non-violence in conflict zones, Peace Brigades International’
2018: Las esperanzas del Acuerdo de Paz
Civil Wars and State Formation. Violence and the Politics of Legitimacy in Angola, Côte d’Ivoire and South Sudan
Biased Protection? Civilian Agency, Stigmatization and the UN Security Council’s (Re-) Construction of Identity
Addressing peace and safety concerns in Wau, South Sudan
Informing Durable Solutions for Internal Displacement In Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan
Ye Shakoch Chilot (the court of the sheikhs): A traditional institution of conflict resolution in Oromiya zone of Amhara regional state, Ethiopia
Capítulo 8: La sanación/ Chapter 8: Healing
The psychological selection profile for civil-military coordination officers in peace-support operations: The results of field research in the Sudan
Reflecting on the Role of Regional and International Interventions in Resolving the Post-coup Crisis in Sudan
The militarization of cattle raiding in South Sudan: how a traditional practice became a tool for political violence
Dispute Resolution and Electoral Justice in Africa: The Way Forward
Announced and tolerated blow
Civilian Protection and Conflict Resolution: Good Practices at the Local Level
Non-military strategies for civilian protection in the DRC
2010: Una vida por los derechos humanos - David Ravelo
2009: Las chuzadas del DAS
2005: La masacre que transformó la Comunidad de Paz para siempre
Conflict sensitivity in responses to COVID-19 Initial guidance and reflections
Localising humanitarian aid during armed conflict Learning from the histories and creativity of South Sudanese NGOs
Blurring ‘the Other’: Transforming relations in the management of the 1992 ethno-religious conflicts in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Healing the Wounds of the Past Peacebuilding Prospects for Zimbabwe
UN peacekeeping in Africa and good governance: challenges and prospects
Traditional methods of conflict resolution The Kom experience
Customary Protection? Chiefs’ courts as public authority in UN Protection of civilian sites in South Sudan
Identity and Cultural Diversity in Conflict Resolution and Democratisation Renaissance: The Case of Burundi
“Like the military of the village” Security, justice and community defence groups in south-east South Sudan
National roundtable on peace and stability in South Sudan The way forward: challenges and recommendations
Peace and stability in South Sudan: Challenges and recommendations
Saferworld's annual review 2018-19
Enhancing Civilian Protection in Peace Operations: Insights from Africa
La question de l’appui institutionnel aux jeunes filles victimes de viols et d’incestes au Cameroun : quelle gouvernance dans la gestion de ce « problème genré » de santé publique ?
Pacifist Activists: Christian Peacemakers in Palestine 1995-2014
Breaking Out of the Spiral in South Sudan Anti-Money Laundering, Network Sanctions, and a New Peacemaking Architecture
Capítulo 7: El Autocuidado/ Chapter 7: Selfcare
Poster de Hope for Colombia. The Grace Pilgrimage 2010 Bogotá.
Protection of Civilians sites: Lessons from South Sudan for future operations
Turning the Tables: Insights from locally-led humanitarian partnerships in conflict situations
South Sudan National Action Plan 2015-2020 pn UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
Enacting the 'Civilian Plus': International Humanitarian Actors and the Conceptualization of Distinction
The South Sudan Crisis: Legal Implications and Responses of the International Community
Peacemaking and Peacekeeping: Reflections from Abyei
Women-led self-protection in Sudan
Experimenting with a reconciliation pedagogy in South African primary school history classrooms: Constraints and possibilities
Security and Conflict Management in the African Borderlands A People-centred Approach
Capítulo 9: La espiritualidad en la protección/Chapter 9: Spirituality in protection
Increasing women’s participation in community-based peace and security structures
Rectifying Horizontal Inequalities: Lessons from African Conflict
Informal peacebuilding initiatives in Africa: Removing the table
The Global Implication: Japan’s Peace Operations in South Sudan
What transitional justice in Zimbabwe? Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) prepares for popular participation
Working with government and customary authorities: considerations for peacebuilding practitioners
Trajectories of International Engagement with State and Local Actors: Evidence from South Sudan
Participation under Fire: dilemmas of reintegrating child soldiers involved in South Sudan’s armed conflict
African Children’s Right to Participate in their Own Protection: Perspectives from South Sudan
South Sudan's Civil War Will Not End with a Peace Deal
‘Living between Two Lions’: Civilian Protection Strategies during Armed Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sustainable community approaches to peacebuilding in securitised environments: case study of Somalia
From soldiers to citizens: Demilitarization of conflict and society
Heirs of the world’s newest nation: Contrasting rhetoric and realities of children as citizens and nation-builders in South Sudan
Women’s Rights in Jeopardy: The Case of War-Torn South Sudan
Statebuilding and legitimacy Experiences of South Sudan
Conflicts in Africa: Meaning, Causes, Impact and Solution
Small and Far Between: Peacekeeping Economies in South Sudan
Steps Toward Abolishing War: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping and a Two-Legged Democracy
Reviving peace in South Sudan through the Revitalised Peace Agreement Understanding the enablers and possible obstacles
Rule of whose law? The geography of authority in Juba, South Sudan
Hope for Colombia. The Grace Pilgrimage 2010 Bogotá
Unarmed Civilians Sustain Peace
The Religious Landscape in South Sudan: Challenges and Opportunities for Engagement
Gendered (in)security in South Sudan: masculinities and hybrid governance in Imatong state
“They Are Now Community Police”: Negotiating the Boundaries and Nature of the Government in South Sudan through the Identity of Militarised Cattle-keepers
Proactive Presence Field strategies for civilian protection
Orchestrating peace in South Sudan: exploring the effectiveness of the European Union’s mediation support
People-to-People Peacemaking and Peacebuilding: A Review of the Work of the New Sudan Council of Churches
Who are the civilians in the wars of South Sudan?
Communities tackling small arms and light weapons in South Sudan Lessons learnt and best practices
Peacemaking and Peace Agreements in South Sudan: An Introduction
Displaced Youth’s Role in Sustainable Return: Lessons from South Sudan
Sustaining Peace Through Unarmed Civilian Protection
Christian Peacemaker Teams in Israel/Palestine: Beyond Accompaniment
Good Practices in Nonviolent, Unarmed, Civilian to Civilian Protection and Protective Accompaniment Documentation of the Workshop in Bogotá (Colombia), 13-15 January 2020
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the Protection of Civilians
The Creating Safer Space Participatory Evaluation and Learning Methodology for UCP
Unarmed Civilian Protection in Myanmar: Central Myanmar, Kachin and Chin State
Strengthening Unarmed Community Self-protection in Cameroon’s Anglophone Conflict
Creating Safer Space Policy Brief | No. 2/2024: Community Self-Protection Makes Civilians Safer
Creating Safer Space Policy Brief | No. 3/2024: The Missing Piece of PoC: Local Unarmed Civilian Protection
Creating Safer Space Policy Brief | No. 6/2024: Nonviolent Community Strategies Protect Civilians Across the World
Creating Safer Space Policy Brief | No. 7/2024: Community Self-Protection Makes Civilians Safer
Evaluation of the Nonviolent Peaceforce Project with the Civilian Protection Component of the International Monitoring Team in Mindanao, Philippines
Creating Safer Space Policy Brief | No. 5/2024: Unarmed Civilian Protection in Post-Coup Myanmar
Creating Safer Space Policy Brief | No. 4/2024: Community Unarmed Civilian Protection in South Sudan
Building a Robust CCM Mechanism in Myanmar
Unarmed Forces: Civilian Strategy in Violent Conflicts
Understanding Why and How Civilians Resort to Self-Protection in Armed Conflict
Women’s group slams troops in Basilan, Sulu
UCP Manual: Strengthening Civilian Capacities to Protect Civilians Against Violence
Witness for Peace: A Story of Resistance
Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace
Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy
Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices, and Politics
Toolbox for a Decolonial Perspective in Unarmed Civilian Protection
Gender and Livelihoods among Internally Displaced Persons in Mindanao, Philippines
At the Frontline: Women Peacekeepers in the Philippines
Last Stand in Sudan?
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The Commander's Dilemma: Violence and Restraint in Wartime
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