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Professor Rachel Julian

Professor

Professor Rachel Julian is an internationally recognised researcher working on Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping/Protection and the way we recognise the lives and voices of those affected by violence and crisis. Her work challenges the widespread acceptance of violence in International Relations and the assumption that peacekeeping requires soldiers.

In working with community partners in South East Asia and East Africa, Rachel has explored how civilians protect one another from violence, increase their capacity and agency to act, the voices of survivors in influencing policy and how a nonviolent feminist analysis generates creative approaches in the midst of complex challenges.

Rachel's interdisciplinary research uses arts, creative and technology methods and is widely published and funded through research grants from AHRC-UKRI, Global Challenges Research Fund, British Academy and United States Institute for Peace. She is working in three international networks and regularly presents her research at international conferences. She has been invited as an expert to speak at a UN meeting and German Parliament sub committee and is always interested in new and exciting projects and methods.

Rachel teaches undergraduate and postgraduate in nonviolent resistance, civilian protection and developing and managing projects. She supervises PhD students researching peace, nonviolence, conflict and protection.

Current Teaching

Civilian Protection
Nonviolent Resistance
Developing and Managing Projects

Research Interests

Professor Julian has published substantial evidence that unarmed civilians can de-escalate violence without using weapons. International Relations is underpinned by theories that assume violence works in creating peace and that armed soldiers are necessary for managing violence and peacekeeping. Drawing on data from practice, she demonstrates the power of civilian action in the midst of armed conflict.

Working with partners in Myanmar, Rachel has explored how arts and lived experience reveal more about the reality of armed conflict and the way that women work in their communities to understand inequality in broad terms. In Mindanao, Philippines, she has enabled the collection of civilian views on their roles and tasks in protecting other civilians and community early warning.

In a network across East Africa, Rachel’s work includes building capacity in using participatory methodologies in community-led research and involving the voices and narratives of human trafficking survivors in influencing policy.

Rachel’s genuinely collaborative research is building capacity and changing lives through exploring the inter-relationship between feminism, peace, conflict, resistance, culture and power in a range of partnerships.