Ellen Furnari has been involved with accompaniment/unarmed civilian protection (A/UCP) primarily as a researcher and consultant since 2003, as well as teaching an online course.Randy Janzen, Ph.D, 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 a recently retired professor of Peace and Justice Studies and currently involved in UCP work in Palestine and Burundi. Rosemary Kabaki serves as the Head of Mission at Nonviolent Peaceforce in Myanmar.

“With a focus on survivors of wars, this book provides evidence that non-violent action is effective and powerful in protecting lives and human rights even in the most dangerous security situations.” Mulanda Jimmy Juma, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

• 1. Introduction – Ellen Furnari2. How Does UCP Protect Without Weapons? – M. S. Wallace3. A Typology for the Various UCP Practices – Randy Janzen4. UCP and Conflict Transformation – Christine Schweitzer5. The Temporal and Embodied Construction of Space and UCP – Louise Ridden6. Unarmed Civilian Protection: Security or Humanitarian Aid? – John Reuwer7. Relational Strategies: Contested Approaches to Relationships in UCP – Felicity Gray8. Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP): Exploring the Challenge for Political Science – Cécile Dubernet9. Gender and Care in Unarmed Civilian Protection – Derek Oakley10. Unarmed Civilian Protection and Nonviolence With Attention to Sub-Saharan Africa – Moses Monday John11. Transforming Armed Policing in the US: Contributions From Unarmed Civilian Protection Models – Eli McCarthy12. Protecting Former Perpetrators? Expanding the Concept of UCP/A through an Exploration of Violence in the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Colombia – Beatriz Arias López, Berit Bliesemann De Guevara and Laura Jiménez Ospina13. Unarmed Civilian Protection: Impact on Strengthening Civilian Capacities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao – Jeyamurugan Vyappareddiyar14. Conclusion – Ellen Furnari and Randy Janzen