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"TLTE Civic Protection Doctrine is the diaspora's civilian evidence and standards layer that strengthens the case for international accountability — not a substitute that makes UN action unnecessary."
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Civic Protection Doctrine
குடியியல் பாதுகாப்புக் கோட்பாடு
The diaspora's civilian evidence and standards layer that strengthens the case for international accountability. We do not replace the UN. We make the case clearer, with citations a special rapporteur or an MP can use.
Now · Aarambam
Citation-only doctrine pages. UCP Manual + Berkeley Protocol + Murad Code as the anchor frameworks. TLTE's own NCSC Cyber Essentials posture published. Risk indicators aggregated verbatim from Tier-A bodies.
Becoming · Nilaiththanmai
A live aggregator for the Civilian Risk Indicators page, drawing from `unmai_pattern_signals`, `unmai_demil_ledger` and the Citations Registry — still no proprietary scoring, only structured aggregation.
The doctrine has six pages
- Legal Foundation
UK Terrorism Act §12/13, ICCPR, OHCHR resolutions, Berkeley Protocol, UCP precedent.
- Civilian Risk Indicators
Renamed from Civic Forecast. Aggregation of Tier-A sources only. No proprietary scoring. No predictions.
- UCP Standards & Curriculum
Nonviolent Peaceforce UCP Manual, Felicity Gray ANU thesis, Murad Code. Standards page, not deployment.
- Cyber Layer
TLTE's own NCSC Cyber Essentials baseline. Routes at-risk individuals to Access Now and Citizen Lab.
- Historical Lineage
UTHR(J), Rajani Thiranagama, People's Tribunal Dublin 2010, ITJP / PEARL / Adayaalam as current peers.
- Guardrails — non-removable
Every hard rule on the doctrine. Locked. Audit us against this list.
What this doctrine is NOT
- ·Not a substitute that makes UN action unnecessary.
- ·Not a separate platform or new brand.
- ·Not a forecasting service or proprietary risk-scoring system.
- ·Not a deployment of unarmed civilian protectors.
- ·Not a militia, intelligence body, government-in-exile or armed group.
Anchor frameworks & lineage
The standards, peer-reviewed research and historical precedents this doctrine rests on. Each link resolves to a permanent /cite/<slug> record.
Tier A — primary
- Unarmed Civilian Protection Manual, 2nd ed.
tlte-cite:ucp-manual-2021Nonviolent Peaceforce with UNITAR · Nonviolent Peaceforce / UNITAR (2021)Recognised civilian-protection discipline, co-developed with the UN training arm. TLTE references; never deploys.
- Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations
tlte-cite:berkeley-protocol-2022OHCHR + UC Berkeley Human Rights Center · United Nations / UC Berkeley (2022)International standard for OSINT-as-evidence. TLTE adopts chain-of-custody, hash + timestamp + source-archive on every Unmai artefact.
- Murad Code — Global Code of Conduct for Investigating and Documenting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
tlte-cite:murad-codeInstitute for International Criminal Investigations / Nadia's Initiative · Murad Code Project (2022)Survivor-centred conduct standard. TLTE never takes survivor testimony — but references the Code so partners can audit our deference posture.
- A Different Kind of Weapon — Unarmed Civilian Protection and the Politics of Protection
tlte-cite:gray-anu-2023Felicity Gray · Australian National University, PhD thesis (2023)Peer-reviewed academic anchor for civilian-led protection as a distinct, evidenced discipline.
- Psychological & Emotional War — the human cost of digital transnational repression
tlte-cite:citizen-lab-psychological-2022Citizen Lab · Munk School, University of Toronto (2022)Peer-cited evidence of digital transnational repression affecting diaspora communities. TLTE's threat-model anchor.
- No Escape — the gendered dimensions of digital transnational repression
tlte-cite:citizen-lab-no-escape-2024Citizen Lab · Munk School, University of Toronto (2024)Gendered dimensions of transnational digital repression. Co-anchor for the Cyber Layer.
- Mitigating cyber threats with limited resources — guidance for civil society
tlte-cite:cisa-ncsc-cse-2024CISA + NCSC-UK + CSE-Canada (joint advisory) · Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (May 2024)Tier-A government baseline for civil-society cyber defence. TLTE's own posture aligns to this.
- Cyber Essentials — UK government baseline
tlte-cite:ncsc-cyber-essentialsNational Cyber Security Centre (UK) · NCSCTLTE's published cyber baseline as a UK CIC.
- Digital Security Helpline
tlte-cite:access-now-helplineAccess Now · Access NowRecognised global civil-society digital-safety partner. TLTE routes at-risk individuals here; never gives op-sec on the public site.
- University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) — reports 1988 onwards
tlte-cite:uthr-jaffnaUTHR(J) — Rajan Hoole, Daya Somasundaram, Rajani Thiranagama, K. Sritharan · UTHR(J)The Tamil precedent for evidence-layer-not-armed-actor. Rajani Thiranagama's 1989 assassination is the historical anchor for why this work matters.
- Permanent People's Tribunal on Sri Lanka — Dublin Session
tlte-cite:peoples-tribunal-dublin-2010Permanent People's Tribunal · PPT, Dublin (January 2010)Civil-society tribunal precedent as a stage that precedes — and strengthens the case for — international accountability.
- About Apple threat notifications and protecting against mercenary spyware
tlte-cite:apple-threat-notificationsApple · Apple SupportVendor-published threat-notification programme. TLTE routes at-risk users to enrol; never advises on tooling itself.
- University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) — UTHR(J) — successive bulletins and reports
tlte-cite:uthrj-reportsUniversity Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) · UTHR(J) — uthr.orgContemporaneous Tamil-side human-rights documentation through the conflict period, published at significant personal cost to the authors. UTHR(J) documented violations by the Sri Lankan state, by the IPKF (1987–1990), and by armed Tamil organisations — a triple-independence posture that the case file treats as the historical reference for non-state, non-armed, contemporaneous civic documentation. Cited extensively by OHCHR OISL, ICG, Amnesty, and the academic literature.
- The Broken Palmyra — The Tamil Crisis in Sri Lanka
tlte-cite:uthr-broken-palmyraHoole, Somasundaram, Sritharan, Thiranagama (UTHR(J)) · Sri Lanka Studies Institute (1990); UTHR(J) Reports 1–14Standing Tamil-civilian human-rights record covering IPKF abuses, intra-Tamil killings, LTTE suppression of dissent, EPDP and Karuna-faction collaboration with Sri Lankan security forces. Canonical Tier-A Tamil-civilian source for the period. Rajani Thiranagama was assassinated 21 Sep 1989 — publicly recorded; UTHR(J) honours her legacy.
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Legal Foundation
UK Terrorism Act §12/13, ICCPR, OHCHR resolutions, Berkeley Protocol, UCP precedent.
Civilian Risk Indicators
Renamed from Civic Forecast. Aggregation of Tier-A sources only. No proprietary scoring.
UCP Standards & Curriculum
Nonviolent Peaceforce UCP Manual + Felicity Gray ANU thesis + Murad Code. Standards page, not deployment.
Cyber Layer
TLTE's own NCSC Cyber Essentials baseline. Routes at-risk to Access Now and Citizen Lab. No op-sec on public site.