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Introduction: Enacting Peace Amid Violence: Nonviolent Civilian Agency in Violent Conflict
Love in war? The strategic use of intimacy in armed conflict
Nonviolent Knowledge(s) and Unarmed Civilian Protection
The Glass Ceiling for UCP in Inter-Governmental Organizations
Unarmed Bodyguards
Soldiers, Civilians and Peacekeeping – Evidence and False Assumptions
Mainstreaming Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Standing ‘bare hands’ against the Syrian regime: the turn to armed resistance and the question of civilian protection
Community-based protection: the ICRC approach
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
Saving Lives, Saving Souls
Dehumanization amidst massacres: An examination of Dinka-Nuer intergroup attitudes in South Sudan.
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
South Sudan’s December 2013 conflict: Bolting state-building fault lines with social capital
Les régimes de sécurité en Afrique: perspectives et défis
Ethiopian customary dispute resolution mechanisms Forms of restorative Justice?
Deploying to Protect: The Effect of Military Peacekeeping Deployments on Violence Against Civilians
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
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
Communal conflict, communal peacemaking and governmental intervention in Nigeria Lessons from the Ife-Modakeke crisis
The Gospel draws us further: a just peace ethic
Community counts: The social reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia
Who Really Protects Civilians?
The Civilian Side of Peacekeeping: New Research Avenues
A virtue-based just peace ethic
Tunnel Vision or Kaleidoscope: Competing Concepts on Sudan Identity and National Integration
Irregular warfare in African conflicts
Towards an indigenous model of conflict resolution: Reinventing women’s roles as traditional peacebuilders in neo-colonial Africa
‘Memory is the strength of our resistance’: an ‘other politics’ through embodied and material commemoration in the San José Peace Community, Colombia
Una Comunidad de Paz en conflicto con la soberanía y el aparato judicial del Estado
Civilians in non-international armed conflicts: The contemporary Nigerian experience
"Going where we otherwise would not have gone": Protective accompaniment and election monitoring in Sri Lanka
Some considerations for civilian-peacekeeper protection alliances
Protecting civilians in civil war: The institution of the ATCC in Colombia
Non-coercive defence diplomacy for conflict prevention
The role of ex-offenders in implementing the Community Work Programme as a crime and violence prevention initiative
Seeking Peace in South Sudan: The Contributions and Challenges of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Violent Peace: Local Perceptions of Threat and Insecurity in Post-Conflict Colombia
The role of civil society in conflict resolution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1998–2006: An appraisal
Australian Unarmed Peacekeepers on Bougainville, 1997–2003
Incorporating unarmed civilian peacekeeping into Canadian foreign policy: what do Canadians think?
Harbingers of Hope Peace Initiatives in Colombia
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
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!
Preparing for self-preservation
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
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
The quest for happiness as an underlying motive for violent conflict in Africa
Territories of peace: alter-territorialities in Colombia’s San José de Apartadó Peace Community
Another Peacekeeping is Possible
Alter-geopolitics: Other securities are happening
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
Cure Violence: A Public Health Model to Reduce Gun Violence
The Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka: methods and impact (September 2003-January 2006)
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
Filipino zones of peace
Researching with ‘Local’ Associates: Power, Trust and Data in an Interpretive Project on Communities’ Conflict Knowledge in Myanmar
Community-based protection mechanisms
From expert to experiential knowledge: exploring the inclusion of local experiences in understanding violence in conflict
This is how we survived': Civilian agency and humanitarian protection
The Notion of Space in International Accompaniment
“Will you really protect us without a gun? Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping in the U.S.”
Insurgent Peace: Community-Led Peacebuilding of Indigenous Peoples in Sagada, Philippines
The (self) protection of civilians in South Sudan: Popular and community justice practices
Securing space for local peacebuilding: the role of international and national civilian peacekeepers
Significance of Societal Customs in the South Sudan Civil War Resolution
Paroles d’intervenants civils de paix : repenser l’impartialité comme espace paradoxal
The Origins and Development of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Shifting Practices of Peace: What is the current state of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping?
The challenges of power-sharing and transitional justice in post-civil war African countries: Comparing Burundi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone
Political leadership and conflict resolution: An African example
Global civil society initiative to create a large-scale, unarmed peaceforce. A New Instrument for the Peace builders’ Toolkit
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
El Comité de Integración del Macizo Colombiano-CIMA. Una construcción campesina para la defensa del Territorio y la Identidad
The challenges of preventive diplomacy: The United Nations’ post-Cold War experiences in Africa
Mozambique’s peace decades since the end of the conflict: Inclusive or managed democracy?
Civil–military coordination
The National Dialogue Initiative in South Sudan Assessing Progress and Pitfalls
African Approaches to Building Peace and Social Solidarity
Transitional justice and gender in Uganda: Making peace, failing women during the peace negotiation process
Strengthening ethical political leadership for sustainable peace and social justice in Africa: Uganda as a case study
Peace building and transformation from below: Indigenous Approaches to Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation among the Pastoral Societies in the Borderlands of Eastern Africa.
International Peace-Keeping Operation: A Breach of International Law on Sovereignty of States?
The African Union Mission in Somalia and Civilian Protection Challenges
Working towards and African peacekeeping capability: Key issues, challenges and dilemmas in Darfur
Non-violence in conflict zones, Peace Brigades International’
Ye Shakoch Chilot (the court of the sheikhs): A traditional institution of conflict resolution in Oromiya zone of Amhara regional state, Ethiopia
The psychological selection profile for civil-military coordination officers in peace-support operations: The results of field research in the 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
Blurring ‘the Other’: Transforming relations in the management of the 1992 ethno-religious conflicts in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria
UN peacekeeping in Africa and good governance: challenges and prospects
Identity and Cultural Diversity in Conflict Resolution and Democratisation Renaissance: The Case of Burundi
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 ?
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
Experimenting with a reconciliation pedagogy in South African primary school history classrooms: Constraints and possibilities
Rectifying Horizontal Inequalities: Lessons from African Conflict
Informal peacebuilding initiatives in Africa: Removing the table
What transitional justice in Zimbabwe? Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) prepares for popular participation
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
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
Conflicts in Africa: Meaning, Causes, Impact and Solution
Small and Far Between: Peacekeeping Economies in South Sudan
Rule of whose law? The geography of authority in Juba, South Sudan
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
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?
Peacemaking and Peace Agreements in South Sudan: An Introduction
Christian Peacemaker Teams in Israel/Palestine: Beyond Accompaniment
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the Protection of Civilians
Unarmed Forces: Civilian Strategy in Violent Conflicts
When the Going Gets Tough… Monitoring Missions and a Changing Conflict Environment in Sri Lanka, 2002–2008
Understanding Why and How Civilians Resort to Self-Protection in Armed Conflict
Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace
Last Stand in Sudan?
Resistencias para la paz en Colombia. Experiencias indígenas, afrodescendientes y campesinas
Home-Grown Peace: Civil Society Roles in Ceasefire Monitoring
Violence, legitimacy, and prophecy: Nuer struggles with uncertainty in South Sudan
Aportes a la construcción de paz desde la comunicación y el tejido social: caso de los parceleros de Santa Paula
Relational R2P? Civilian-Led Prevention and Protection against Atrocity Crimes
Emberá katío: un pueblo milenario que se niega a desaparecer tras un desplazamiento forzado que conlleva a su extinción física y cultural
Tubiganay: Conflict Resolution Amongs Indigenous Cultural Communities in Central Panay Mountains
Guardia Campesina del Catatumbo (Asociación Campesina del Catatumbo ASCAMCAT). Entre la autoprotección, el empoderamiento y la construcción territorial
Scrutinising UN peacebuilding: entangled peace and its limits
Civilian Resistance against the Military in Eastern DR Congo
Creating the Nonviolent Peace Force
Protection as connection: feminist relational theory and protecting civilians from violence in South Sudan
The Ifugao Muyong: Sustaining Water, Culture and Life
Violent or non-violent action? Wartime civilian resistance in Colombia and Mozambique
La paz y la no violencia adquieren significado propio en Colombia en las iniciativas de paz que construyen las bases desde lo local
OING y derechos humanos en Colombia. Un golpe ineludible y vigoroso de la sociedad civil
Between Culture and Concept: The Protection of Civilians in Sudan (UNMIS)
Civilian Contention in Civil War: How Ideational Factors Shape Community Responses to Armed Groups
Trade, peace-building and hybrid governance in the Sudan-South Sudan borderlands
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism
La resistencia civil de los indígenas del Cauca
Philippines:A Review of the Traditional Conflict Resolution Practices Among Indigenous Cultural Communities
Colombian peace communities: the role of NGOs in supporting resistance to violence and oppression
The Role of Bae in Resolving Conflict and Maintaining Tribal Peace and Order
Factors and Forces that Led to the Marawi Debacle
Coexistence Ceasefire in Mindanao
The Role of NGOs and Broader Civil Society in Ceasefire Monitoring: Lessons from Mindanao
Problematizing the medicalization of violence: a critical discourse analysis of the ‘Cure Violence’ initiative
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