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Civic Protection Doctrine
Standards reference · NOT deployment

UCP Standards & Curriculum

Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) is a recognised discipline, co-developed with UNITAR. This page is a standards-and-curriculum reference. TLTE does not deploy observers, monitors, or accompaniment teams. Trained organisations do that.

The standards we reference

  • UCP Manual 2nd ed. (2021)

    Nonviolent Peaceforce + UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Primary curriculum for the discipline.

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  • A Different Kind of Weapon (2023)

    Felicity Ellen Gray, PhD thesis, Australian National University. Peer-reviewed academic anchor for civilian-led protection.

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  • Murad Code

    Survivor-centred conduct standard for anyone working with conflict-related survivors.

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  • Berkeley Protocol (2022)

    OHCHR + UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. Standard for evidentiary OSINT.

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  • Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

    Trauma-informed reporting and interviewing standards.

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  • ACOS Alliance Safety Principles

    Freelance journalist safety standard.

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Who deploys

  • Nonviolent Peaceforce

    Operational UCP across multiple conflict theatres.

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  • Cure Violence Global

    Community-violence interruption methodology.

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  • Peace Brigades International

    Protective accompaniment for at-risk HRDs.

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  • Witness for Peace

    Observer missions.

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  • ACOS Alliance partner organisations

    Journalist safety training.

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TLTE references their work; we do not duplicate it.

What TLTE actually does

  • ·Curate the standards — keep a single page that links to the canonical curricula.
  • ·Teach the lineage — explain to Tamil diaspora audiences that civilian-led protection is a recognised UN-adjacent discipline.
  • ·Pair with our existing desks — Murad Code under Magalir Avai; Berkeley Protocol under Unmai; ACOS under Press Freedom.

What TLTE never does

  • ·Never deploys UCP observers.
  • ·Never represents itself as a UCP-trained protection body.
  • ·Never accepts "protection requests" for individuals.
  • ·Never publishes a TLTE-branded UCP manual that would compete with Nonviolent Peaceforce.

If you are facing a protection need: route to the deploying organisations above. Nonviolent Peaceforce, Peace Brigades International and ACOS Alliance partners are equipped and trained. We are a citation page.

Anchor sources

Stable citation IDs in the tlte-cite: namespace. Each link resolves to a permanent record at docs.tlte.cloud/cite/<slug> with title, publisher, archive URL, and reuse guidance.

Tier A — primary
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