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”致力于实现加强非武装平民保护实践的愿景，为处于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，目前因暴力冲突而被迫流离失所的人数达到6850万人，创历史新高（难民署，2019年），冲突中的大多数死亡人员是平民，而不是武装行为者。这使得在战争背景下保护平民免受人身伤害成为我们这个时代的一个紧迫问题。虽然国际社会已经认识到保护的必要性，但平民的人身安全仍然几乎完全被视为联合国蓝盔部队等武装外部行为者的任务。这个项目的独创性在于其重点是由非武装平民行动者提供保护，并部署在社区的地方一级，无论是由“外部”专家、“内部/地方”保护行动者还是受冲突影响的社区本身。具体而言，该项目支持英国研究人员与拉丁美洲和东南亚四个低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC）的研究人员和从业人员在非武装平民保护（UCP）领域建立和巩固公平的伙伴关系。哥伦比亚、墨西哥、缅甸和菲律宾等国经历了长期和（或）大规模的暴力和不同类型的流离失所，并发起了各种地方保护倡议。该项目的活动集中在五个核心目标上：(1)建立和巩固UCP合作伙伴网络，以公平地加强UCP工作和知识；(2)界定关于UCP的现有知识，包括学术、非学术和其他来源（如电影、艺术或工艺）和认识方式（如土著知识和宇宙论）；(3)通过开发在线培训材料来提高英国和伙伴国研究人员进行安全、道德和包容性研究的能力，从而提高研究能力和程序；(4)通过建立一个跨越技术、语言和文化鸿沟的数字平台，为南南学习创造沟通渠道，实现跨国经验分享；(5)通过利益相关者映射促进宣传和影响。通过这些活动，该项目将通过建立伙伴关系、能力和程序来实现公平的研究和影响，从而留下可持续的遗产，这有利于合作伙伴的UCP工作，并为英国和/或LMIC同事和组织在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.