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Transforming protection : the implications of unarmed civilian protection / Rachel Julian ; with a foreword by Mel Duncan.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Julian, Rachel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilian-based defense.
- Civilians in war.
- War--Protection of civilians.
- War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) is practised globally by civilians protecting fellow civilians without the use of weapons. This book argues that while UCP is useful and transformative in its own right, its principles and values mean it has the potential to transform our responses in a range of social contexts where there is violence.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Transforming Protection: The Implications of Unarmed Civilian Protection
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- Why do civilians need protection?
- UCP
- How has this book come about?
- The new paradigm
- Stepping into exciting thinking
- 2 Contested Protection
- Setting out a current frame for protection
- Changing thinking and moving forward on protection
- Our contested space of protection
- Protection of civilians in peacekeeping (a mountain peak)
- Protecting civilians in diplomacy and using the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) (a mountain peak)
- Protecting civilians in humanitarian programming (a mountain peak)
- Protecting civilians through law (a mountain peak)
- Protecting civilians through community and self-.protection (on the plains and valley)
- The protection and peace relationship
- Linking to the local level and experience
- A contested view of protection is a systems view
- Myths and assumptions in protection
- Defining contested protection
- Conclusion
- 3 Unarmed Civilian Protection
- What is UCP and how did it develop?
- Where does UCP work?
- UCP activities
- UCP is context specific
- Who does UCP?
- How does UCP work?
- Setting out how UCP works
- 4 Nonviolence
- What is nonviolence?
- Principles in nonviolence
- Nonviolence can be deeply challenging
- How can we use nonviolence?
- Nonviolence in protecting civilians from violence
- Nonviolence is creating peace
- Nonviolence is transformative
- 5 Primacy of the Local
- Conceptualizing the local in UCP
- The local debate
- Who is local in UCP?
- The practice of locally led UCP
- Including the local in the design of UCP
- 6 Feminism and Anti-Oppression
- Feminist inclusion of marginalized voices
- Constructing knowledge from experience
- The feminist gender myth of protection in international politics
- An anti-oppression lens
- Linking protection behaviours and actors
- 7 Violence
- Different ways of thinking about violence
- Violence reduction and a theory of change
- Understanding a context
- Conflict, violence and systems thinking
- UCP and the prevention of violence
- UCP contribution to peacekeeping
- 8 Power
- Developing forms of power
- Militarism
- Militarism and protection
- Agency
- 9 Conclusion
- The new way of thinking about protection
- 10 Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3393-3
- 1-5292-3392-5
- OCLC:
- 1524423024
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