GCRF Development Award Creating Safer Space - Building Networks and Knowledge Bases for Civilian Protection

发展奖项目“创造更安全的空间”致力于实现加强手无寸铁的平民保护做法的愿景，为暴力冲突中的社区创造更安全的空间，并帮助防止流离失所。根据联合国难民署的数据，目前有6850万人因暴力冲突而被迫流离失所，创下历史新高（联合国难民署，2019年），冲突中的大多数死亡者是平民，而不是武装分子。这使得在战争中保护平民不受人身伤害成为我们时代的一个紧迫问题。虽然国际社会已经认识到保护平民的必要性，但平民的人身安全仍然几乎完全被视为联合国蓝盔等外部武装行为体的任务。这一项目的独创性在于其重点是由部署在社区地方一级的非武装平民行为体提供保护，无论是由“外部”专家、“内部/当地”保护行为体还是受冲突影响的社区本身提供保护。具体而言，该项目支持在英国研究人员与拉丁美洲和东南亚四个中低收入国家的研究人员和从业人员之间建立和巩固非武装平民保护（UCP）领域的公平伙伴关系，这些国家目睹了长期和/或大规模的暴力和不同类型的流离失所，并采取了各种地方保护举措：哥伦比亚、墨西哥、缅甸和菲律宾。该项目的活动集中于五个核心目标：（1）建立和巩固公平开展工作的统一社区方案伙伴网络，以加强统一社区方案的工作和知识;（2）确定关于统一社区方案的现有知识范围，包括学术、非学术和其他来源（如电影，艺术或工艺）和了解的方式（如土著知识和宇宙论）;（3）通过开发在线培训材料，提高研究能力和程序，提高英国和伙伴国家研究人员进行安全，（4）通过建立一个跨越技术、语言和文化鸿沟的数字平台，为南南学习创造交流渠道，并实现跨国经验共享;（5）通过利益攸关方摸底，促进宣传和影响。通过这些活动，该项目将留下可持续的遗产，建立伙伴关系，能力和程序，以实现公平的研究和影响，这有利于合作伙伴在其UCP工作中的利益，并为英国和/或LMIC同事和组织之间在UCP领域的未来合作奠定基础。总之，这些活动将有助于增加全世界受益于平民保护的人数。

The Development Award project "Creating Safer Space" works towards the vision of enhancing unarmed civilian protection practices, which create safer space for communities amidst violent conflict and help prevent displacement. According to United Nations Refugee Agency, there are now a record high of 68.5 million people forcibly displaced by violent conflict (UNHCR, 2019), and the majority of deaths in conflicts are among civilians, not armed actors. This makes the protection of civilians from physical harm in contexts of war a pressing issue of our time. While the international community has acknowledged the need for protection, the physical safety of civilians is still seen almost exclusively as a task of armed outside actors like UN blue helmets. The originality of this project is its focus on protection provided by unarmed civilian actors and deployed at the local level of communities, be it by "outside" specialists, "insider/local" protection actors or the conflict-affected communities themselves. Specifically, the project supports the building and consolidation of equitable partnerships in the field of unarmed civilian protection (UCP) between researchers in the UK and researchers and practitioners in four Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) in Latin America and Southeast Asia, which have witnessed long-term and/or large-scale violence and displacement of different types and have been home to a variety of local protection initiatives: Colombia, Mexico, Myanmar, and the Philippines. The project's activities concentrate on five core objectives: (1) building and consolidating UCP partner networks that work equitably to enhance UCP work and knowledge; (2) scoping existing knowledge on UCP, including academic, non-academic and other sources (such as film, art or craft) and ways of knowing (such as indigenous knowledges and cosmologies); (3) enhancing research capacity and procedures by developing online training materials that enhance UK and partner country researchers' capacity to conduct safe, ethical and inclusive research; (4) creating communication channels for South-South learning by building a digital platfom that works across technological, lingusitic and cultural divides and enables a transnational sharing of experiences, and (5) facilitating advocacy and impact through stakeholder mapping. Through these activities the project will leave a sustainable legacy by putting in place partnerships, capacities and procedures for equitable research and impact which are of benefit to partners in their UCP work and also lay the foundations for future collaboration between UK and/or LMIC colleagues and organisations in the field of UCP. Taken together, these activities will work towards increasing the number of people benefiting from civilian protection worldwide.