Creating Safer Space - (Spaces of Peace, Security and Development) (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This edited book offers original insights into communities' nonviolent strategies to keep themselves and others safe amidst armed violence.

Drawing on a unique breadth of original research across eleven countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, it analyses the practice of community-led unarmed civilian protection and its embeddedness in local cultures and resistance struggles. By synthesizing findings across different contexts, the book enables a deeper understanding and appreciation of ordinary people's agency and inventiveness in creating safer spaces that enable alternative forms of security and work towards social transformation.

International and interdisciplinary in scope, this book will aid those researching civilian protection, peace, conflict, and security, and international support a variety of disciplines.

About the Author

Beatriz E. Arias López, Professor of Collective Mental Health, University of Antioquia, Colombia.

Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK.

Rachel Julian, Professor of Peace Studies, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Nerve V. Macaspac, Associate Professor of Information Studies, City University of New York, USA.

Rosemary Okello-Orlale, Director at Africa Media Hub, Strathmore Business School, Kenya.