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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.
The book, Creating Safer Space: Unarmed Community Self-Protection and Resistance Amidst Violent Conflict (Spaces of Peace, Security and Development) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781529255300 in Paperback by may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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