Unarmed Civilian Protection A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security edited by Ellen Furnari, Randy Janzen and Rosemary Kabaki

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Janzen, Randy

Furnari, Ellen

Kabaki, Rosemary

Series:

Spaces of Peace, Security and Development.

Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Protection of civilians.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Featuring contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a comprehensive account of unarmed civilian protection (UCP). It brings together a wide range of UCP practices and provides an important illustration of the contributions UCP can make, while also discussing its limitations and failures.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title

Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Definition

History of UCP/A

Basic principles and international law/conventions

How UCP/A works

Places and spaces of UCP/A practice

UCP/A and armed forms of civilian protection

Limits to UCP/A

UCP/A related to other academic studies

Terminology used in this book

Notes

2 How Does UCP Protect Without Weapons?

Interrogating the protection value of weapons and violence

Examining the protection/violence-prevention mechanisms of unarmed civilian protection

Deterrent

Mirror

Bridge

Support

Interactions between mechanisms

Conclusion

3 A Typology for the Various UCP Practices

What is UCP?

Creating a typology for UCP

The UCP Global Database

UCP and creating space for peace

A theoretical framework for UCP: expanding the boundaries and understanding

Conflict analysis and transformation

Differing priorities based on context

Development of a typology

Category 1: UCP as traditional peacekeeping

Category 2: UCP as creating space for nonviolent activism

Category 3: UCP as protecting communities where violence is endemic

4 UCP and Conflict Transformation

UCP as civilian peacekeeping

UCP in the context of other strategies of conflict transformation

Peacebuilding by UCP organizations

Peacemaking by UCP organizations

Overcoming injustice

5 The Temporal and Embodied Construction of Space and UCP

The spatial turn

The space-UCP nexus

Temporal space

Embodied space

6 Unarmed Civilian Protection

The dream and the actuality.

Does the humanitarian label create limitations?

The strength and potential of UCP

Intrinsic limitations of UCP

Bodies versus bullets

Training

Protection versus cause

Vision

Extrinsic barriers to the growth of UCP

Cultural mythology

Profits from violence

Glamour of violence

Systems of domination

Preliminary suggestions for overcoming limitations and barriers to growth

7 Relational Strategies

UCP as relational protection

Mapping diverse relational approaches to UCP

'All parties to a conflict': operationalizing nonpartisanship

Selective relational strategies

Working across strategic lines

8 Unarmed Civilian Protection

Providing protection: not an exclusive state business

Imagining security beyond the use of threats

UCP: tales to envision protection anew

Conclusion: engaging with disturbing perspectives from the margins

9 Gender and Care in Unarmed Civilian Protection

Situating UCP

Gender

Intersectionality

Care

Note

10 Unarmed Civilian Protection and Nonviolence with Attention to Sub-Saharan Africa

Background

Understanding UCP and nonviolence

Fundamental problems that UCP and nonviolence seek to address

The contribution of civil society and grassroots peace actors in violence prevention and peacemaking

11 Transforming Armed Policing in the US

Policing trends: a US perspective

Global context of unarmed policing

US: the Black Lives Matter Movement and calls for systemic transformation

Changes implemented and resistance

Unarmed civilian protection and public safety

Phases for transition

Conclusion.

12 Protecting Former Perpetrators? Expanding the Concept of UCP/A Through an Exploration of Violence in the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Colombia

Chronicle of deaths foretold: systematic violence against demobilized combatants in Colombia

Colombia's violent disarmament, demobilization and reintegration history

The security situation of the 2016 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia peace signatories

Top-down and bottom-up protection approaches in the peace process

Rethinking UCP/A in light of the Colombian case

Acknowledgements

13 Unarmed Civilian Protection

Background to the conflict

Creation of a Civilian Protection Component under the International Monitoring Team

Strategic features of the Civilian Protection Component

Civilian protection in the normalization phase: limitations, challenges and opportunities and lessons learned for improvement

Kitango bombing

Kabacan massacre

Atrocity against the internally displaced community in South Upi

What are the proximate causes that trigger violence?

Recommendations: enhancing the role of the Civilian Protection Component in the post-Bangsamoro Organic Law

14 Conclusion

UCP/A: three key factors

UCP/A: towards a theoretical framework

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5292-2549-3

1-5292-2548-5