Rachel Julian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5145219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Julian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Julian |
| SIGNATURE | JULIAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4766-777X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Modelling Inclusion
This paper explores the methodological implications, processes, and opportunities relating to the use of participatory approaches in the study of intersecting inequalities. Within the context of an international, interdisciplinary project (Partnerships for Equality and Inclusion (PEI)), four sub-projects elected to use participatory methodologies to engage with marginalized and excluded communities so that their needs, voices, and knowledge were …
Civilians Creating Safe Space
The demand for protection for civilians threatened by direct violence is huge, and most responses draw on 'Protection of Civilians' (PoC) by military peacekeepers. In Myanmar and the Philippines, civilians use nonviolence to protect people in their communities from direct violence showing that PoC is carried out by local actors and in sites outside military peacekeeping missions. Evidence from those communities, and the use of Unarmed Civilian Pr…
Drawing Out Experiential Conflict Knowledge in Myanmar
This article argues that arts-based methods such as drawing are particularly useful as means to explore experiential insights into how violent conflict impacts individuals and communities in specific sociocultural contexts and shapes their views of development and peace. It illustrates this through the discussion of a drawing workshop with members of violence-affected communities in Kachin state, Myanmar. Reflecting on the workshop findings and d…
Researching with ‘Local’ Associates
This article discusses the merits and challenges of qualitative-interpretive research into violent conflict, which gives local research associates a central, fairly independent role at the data-generating stage. Specifically, we reflect on our collaboration with three Burmese research associates in organising and implementing two arts-based workshops with participants from violence-affected communities in Myanmar’s Kachin and Rakhine states. Agai…
From expert to experiential knowledge
Critical peace and conflict scholars argue that to understand fully conflict dynamics and possibilities for peace research should incorporate ‘the local’. Yet this important conceptual shift is bound by western concepts, while empirical explorations of ‘the local’ privilege outside experts over mechanisms for inclusion. This article explores how an epistemology drawing on feminist approaches to conflict analysis can help to redirect the focus fro…
The Transformative Impact of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Civilians, working together, and using non-violence to protect themselves and others from direct violence, challenges widespread assumptions that peace and protection can only be delivered by the military and with the threat of force. Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping (UCP), with 35 years of evidence from projects worldwide, demonstrates that the assumption that an armed actor will not yield to anything except a weapon is false, therefore, challengin…
Soldiers, Civilians and Peacekeeping – Evidence and False Assumptions
The assumption that peacekeeping requires soldiers carrying weapons is widespread; 35 years of successful peacekeeping by unarmed civilians is often overlooked. The original definition of peacekeeping is being confused with peace enforcement and peace operations. Limited interest has led to underfunding of unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP) with fewer resources for both study and praxis. Marginalization of civilian peacekeeping has restricted th…
Securing space for local peacebuilding
While large multilateral peace operations arrive with agendas extending into governance, economics and other reforms, unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP) interventions focus on contributing to sufficiently safe space for local efforts at peacebuilding to proceed at the request of local partners. They use a variety of non-violent methods to increase the safety for local leaders and everyday people to engage in (re)building peace infrastructures an…
The Origins and Development of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRachel JulianRachel Julian is a Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She has worked in the field of peace and nonviolence for 20 years, including with Nonviolent Peaceforce. E-mail: [email protected] SchweitzerChristine Schweitzer is co-founder of the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation (www.ifgk.de), Executive Secre…
The practice of psychotherapy and spiritual direction
Building Bridges
Spiritual discernment in psychiatric patients
Researching with ‘Local’ Associates
This article discusses the merits and challenges of qualitative-interpretive research into violent conflict, which gives local research associates a central, fairly independent role at the data-generating stage. Specifically, we reflect on our collaboration with three Burmese research associates in organising and implementing two arts-based workshops with participants from violence-affected communities in Myanmar’s Kachin and Rakhine states. Agai…
The Origins and Development of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRachel JulianRachel Julian is a Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She has worked in the field of peace and nonviolence for 20 years, including with Nonviolent Peaceforce. E-mail: [email protected] SchweitzerChristine Schweitzer is co-founder of the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation (www.ifgk.de), Executive Secre…
From expert to experiential knowledge
Critical peace and conflict scholars argue that to understand fully conflict dynamics and possibilities for peace research should incorporate ‘the local’. Yet this important conceptual shift is bound by western concepts, while empirical explorations of ‘the local’ privilege outside experts over mechanisms for inclusion. This article explores how an epistemology drawing on feminist approaches to conflict analysis can help to redirect the focus fro…
The Transformative Impact of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Civilians, working together, and using non-violence to protect themselves and others from direct violence, challenges widespread assumptions that peace and protection can only be delivered by the military and with the threat of force. Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping (UCP), with 35 years of evidence from projects worldwide, demonstrates that the assumption that an armed actor will not yield to anything except a weapon is false, therefore, challengin…
Soldiers, Civilians and Peacekeeping – Evidence and False Assumptions
The assumption that peacekeeping requires soldiers carrying weapons is widespread; 35 years of successful peacekeeping by unarmed civilians is often overlooked. The original definition of peacekeeping is being confused with peace enforcement and peace operations. Limited interest has led to underfunding of unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP) with fewer resources for both study and praxis. Marginalization of civilian peacekeeping has restricted th…
Securing space for local peacebuilding
While large multilateral peace operations arrive with agendas extending into governance, economics and other reforms, unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP) interventions focus on contributing to sufficiently safe space for local efforts at peacebuilding to proceed at the request of local partners. They use a variety of non-violent methods to increase the safety for local leaders and everyday people to engage in (re)building peace infrastructures an…
Drawing Out Experiential Conflict Knowledge in Myanmar
This article argues that arts-based methods such as drawing are particularly useful as means to explore experiential insights into how violent conflict impacts individuals and communities in specific sociocultural contexts and shapes their views of development and peace. It illustrates this through the discussion of a drawing workshop with members of violence-affected communities in Kachin state, Myanmar. Reflecting on the workshop findings and d…
Spiritual discernment in psychiatric patients
The practice of psychotherapy and spiritual direction
Building Bridges
Securing space for local peacebuilding
While large multilateral peace operations arrive with agendas extending into governance, economics and other reforms, unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP) interventions focus on contributing to sufficiently safe space for local efforts at peacebuilding to proceed at the request of local partners. They use a variety of non-violent methods to increase the safety for local leaders and everyday people to engage in (re)building peace infrastructures an…
The Origins and Development of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRachel JulianRachel Julian is a Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She has worked in the field of peace and nonviolence for 20 years, including with Nonviolent Peaceforce. E-mail: [email protected] SchweitzerChristine Schweitzer is co-founder of the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation (www.ifgk.de), Executive Secre…
Soldiers, Civilians and Peacekeeping – Evidence and False Assumptions
The assumption that peacekeeping requires soldiers carrying weapons is widespread; 35 years of successful peacekeeping by unarmed civilians is often overlooked. The original definition of peacekeeping is being confused with peace enforcement and peace operations. Limited interest has led to underfunding of unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP) with fewer resources for both study and praxis. Marginalization of civilian peacekeeping has restricted th…
From expert to experiential knowledge
Critical peace and conflict scholars argue that to understand fully conflict dynamics and possibilities for peace research should incorporate ‘the local’. Yet this important conceptual shift is bound by western concepts, while empirical explorations of ‘the local’ privilege outside experts over mechanisms for inclusion. This article explores how an epistemology drawing on feminist approaches to conflict analysis can help to redirect the focus fro…
The Transformative Impact of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Civilians, working together, and using non-violence to protect themselves and others from direct violence, challenges widespread assumptions that peace and protection can only be delivered by the military and with the threat of force. Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping (UCP), with 35 years of evidence from projects worldwide, demonstrates that the assumption that an armed actor will not yield to anything except a weapon is false, therefore, challengin…
Researching with ‘Local’ Associates
This article discusses the merits and challenges of qualitative-interpretive research into violent conflict, which gives local research associates a central, fairly independent role at the data-generating stage. Specifically, we reflect on our collaboration with three Burmese research associates in organising and implementing two arts-based workshops with participants from violence-affected communities in Myanmar’s Kachin and Rakhine states. Agai…
Drawing Out Experiential Conflict Knowledge in Myanmar
This article argues that arts-based methods such as drawing are particularly useful as means to explore experiential insights into how violent conflict impacts individuals and communities in specific sociocultural contexts and shapes their views of development and peace. It illustrates this through the discussion of a drawing workshop with members of violence-affected communities in Kachin state, Myanmar. Reflecting on the workshop findings and d…
Civilians Creating Safe Space
The demand for protection for civilians threatened by direct violence is huge, and most responses draw on 'Protection of Civilians' (PoC) by military peacekeepers. In Myanmar and the Philippines, civilians use nonviolence to protect people in their communities from direct violence showing that PoC is carried out by local actors and in sites outside military peacekeeping missions. Evidence from those communities, and the use of Unarmed Civilian Pr…
Modelling Inclusion
This paper explores the methodological implications, processes, and opportunities relating to the use of participatory approaches in the study of intersecting inequalities. Within the context of an international, interdisciplinary project (Partnerships for Equality and Inclusion (PEI)), four sub-projects elected to use participatory methodologies to engage with marginalized and excluded communities so that their needs, voices, and knowledge were …
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Peacekeeping (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)