With gratitude to Ellen Furnari, Randy Janzen, and Rosemary Kabaki for curating this fine collection of essays, Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security, just released from Bristol University Press.

Ellen Furnari has been involved with accompaniment/unarmed civilian protection primarily as a researcher and consultant since 2003, as well as teaching an online course. Randy Janzen has been involved with Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) as a practitioner (accompaniment work in Guatemala), as an educator (co-creating the first post-secondary program in UCP at Selkirk College, Canada) and a researcher. Randy is currently involved in UCP work in Palestine and Burundi. Rosemary Kabaki serves as head of mission at Nonviolent Peaceforce in Myanmar.

The frequent failure of military or armed interventions to protect civilians is well known. This edited collection provides a comprehensive account of a different, effective paradigm: unarmed civilian protection (UCP). The principles and methods of UCP have been used for many decades to protect both specific, threatened individuals as well as whole communities. Featuring contributions from around the world, this book brings together a wide range of UCP practices in order to examine their underlying theory and interrelated strategies. The book provides an important illustration of the contributions UCP can make, while also discussing its limitations and failures.

Of particular note to those working with the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative is an essay on policing by Eli McCarthy and one on security or humanitarian aid in UCP by John Reuwer.

This is an expensive academic book but EPub and Kindle versions are more economical.