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National Catholic Reporter
February 16, 2018
The object of Einstein's literary generosity and personal praise was Gene Sharp. At his death at his home in Boston at age 90 he was regarded as a major figure in the American and international peace movement. Through a shelfful of books that included the three-volume The Politics of Nonviolent Action, ...
The Guardian
February 12, 2018
Gene Sharp, who has died aged 90, carved out a unique role as a theorist of non-violent resistance. In a large number of books and shorter works he did more than anyone else to develop a coherent theory of this phenomenon – also called people power, civil resistance and non-violent action. Only he had ...
New York Times
February 7, 2018
Gene Sharp died last week. What Sun Tzu and Clausewitz were to war, Sharp, who was 90, was to nonviolent struggle — strategist, philosopher, guru. An American academic who worked from his modest Boston home, Sharp studied and cataloged examples of nonviolent resistance, looking at why they ...
Reason (blog)
February 6, 2018
YouTubeThe first interview I did with Gene Sharp was for a foreign-policy roundtable back in 2003. He wrote afterward to say he mostly liked the piece but I should please not call him a pacifist again. This took me by surprise. Sharp, who died last week at age 90, had been a draft resister during the Korean ...
Reason (blog)
February 5, 2018
YouTubeThe first interview I did with Gene Sharp was for a foreign-policy roundtable back in 2003. He wrote afterward to say he mostly liked the piece but I should please not call him a pacifist again. This took me by surprise. Sharp, who died last week at age 90, had been a draft resister during the Korean ...
Democracy Now!
January 31, 2018
And Gene Sharp, a lifelong advocate of nonviolent resistance, has died at the age of 90. Sharp was most famous for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which include the influential book “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation.” He was also the founder of the ...
WBUR
January 30, 2018
Gene Sharp, a lifelong advocate of nonviolent resistance whose influence has been cited in social upheaval around the world, has died. Sharp died at his Boston home on Sunday, said Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by Sharp in 1983. He was 90.
The Guardian
January 30, 2018
Gene Sharp, an obscure American political scientist whose writing on non-violent political resistance ended up being an inspiring influence on the Arab Spring, has died peacefully at home at the age of 90. Sharp distilled the wisdom of icons of non-violent struggle against oppression down the ages, put his ...
The Guardian
January 5, 2018
Thirty years ago, the American political scientist Gene Sharp watched Burmese monks rise up against the military junta. He went on to write the rulebook of non-violent revolution, From Dictatorship to Democracy, which has served as a model for protesters from Serbia to Egypt. There was a time when ...
The Badger Herald
November 16, 2017
Lecture explores influence of power, authority on obedienceA meeting was held at Madison's Wil-Mar Center to present Part I and II of Gene Sharp's book, “How Nonviolent Read… “There's absolutely no doubt that there is oppression and that there's no shortage of suffering in the world, and I do think that's ...
The Badger Herald
September 26, 2017
A meeting was held at Madison's Wil-Mar Center to present Part I and II of Gene Sharp's book, “How Nonviolent Struggle Works,” on the influence of authoritative political power, Tuesday. The discussion was led by David Williams, who presented the beginning of the book and share his own insight on the ...
MediaEd.org
April 20, 2017
... been used successfully to spark and guide moments of political transformation. As a new wave of authoritarianism now threatens democratic principles and basic human rights here in the U.S. and around the world, Gene Sharp's ideas remain as important as ever, serving as a practical, and inspirational, ...
Progressive.org
March 27, 2017
I have been granted a rare interview with Gene Sharp, who has been studying political power, violence, and dictatorships for more than sixty-five years. Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, an organization Sharp founded in the 1980s, meets me at the weathered East Boston row ...
JSTOR Daily
February 28, 2017
Can nonviolence be as strategic as war? Ask Gene Sharp, who has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now in his 89th year, the theorist of nonviolent resistance has been called the “Machiavelli of nonviolence” and the “Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare.” His 1993 handbook From ...
Scientific American (blog)
November 20, 2016
Gene Sharp advocates nonviolent activism for practical rather than moral or spiritual reasons. He rejects religious exhortations that we should turn the other cheek and love our enemies. People in power often deserve to be despised and fought, he contends, but violence, even in the service of a just cause, ...
New Statesman
January 9, 2013
In a long life of scholarship and dissent, Gene Sharp has been imprisoned and persecuted, but never silenced. His ideas continue to inspire resistance movements across the world. Sign up for our weekly email *. By John-Paul Flintoff. Gene Sharp is not a typical pacifist. “When I used to lecture, I would ...
Open Democracy
December 31, 1999
I first came across Gene Sharp in 2006. An enthusiastic and internationally minded student activist, I had been considering writing my Politics undergraduate dissertation on voting behaviour in student elections. That was until I found a copy of Sharp's 1973 work The Politics of Non-Violent Action in the ...
The Boston Globe
December 31, 1999
Gene Sharp wrote the book on nonviolent ways to topple dictators – a small manual that has inspired those organizing uprisings from Burma to Bosnia, Egypt, and Iran. “One of my major concerns for many years has been how people could prevent and destroy dictatorships,” he said in “From Dictatorship to ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Gene Sharp, a preacher's son whose own gospel of nonviolent struggle inspired velvet revolutions that toppled dictators on four continents, died Jan. 28 at his home in Boston. He was 90. His death was announced by Jamila Raqib, an Afghan refugee who is the executive director of the Albert Einstein ...
San Diego Free Press
October 18, 2017
Dr. Gene Sharp, who CNN has called “a dictator's worst nightmare” and the “father of nonviolent struggle,” is the world's leading theorist of ...
The Badger Herald
September 26, 2017
A meeting was held at Madison's Wil-Mar Center to present Part I and II of Gene Sharp's book, “How Nonviolent Struggle Works,” on the ...
HuffPost
August 27, 2017
Gene Sharp first outlined this shift in 1973 in The Politics of Nonviolent Action. Sharp argued that the rule of despots and dictators rests on at ...
MediaEd.org
April 20, 2017
The man in question is Gene Sharp, a soft-spoken, 89-year-old professor who spends much of his time in his small Boston home reading, ...
JSTOR Daily
February 28, 2017
Ask Gene Sharp, who has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now in his 89th year, the theorist of nonviolent resistance has ...
Scientific American (blog)
November 20, 2016
Gene Sharp advocates nonviolent activism for practical rather than moral or spiritual reasons. He rejects religious exhortations that we should ...
New Statesman
January 9, 2013
Gene Sharp is not a typical pacifist. “When I used to lecture, I would always get complaints from the pacifists,” says the academic, who turns 85 ...
New York Times
September 3, 2012
On the morning I go to meet Gene Sharp, the taxi driver cannot even find his house, and there is no sign on the door to mark the building as ...
BBC News
February 21, 2011
Gene Sharp is the world's foremost expert on non-violent revolution. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, his books ...
KSCB News.net
September 13, 2017
Gene Sharp also expressed a desire to get things moving. “We're anxious to see progress being made to bring this project to a close,” he said.
HuffPost
August 27, 2017
Gene Sharp first outlined this shift in 1973 in The Politics of Nonviolent Action. Sharp argued that the rule of despots and dictators rests on at ...
Dissident Voice
August 25, 2017
They are in short the “Gene Sharp factor” — the percentage of the population with which one moves the whole. (Ironically the first edition (1993) ...
Forward
August 21, 2017
Gene Sharp has been discussing analyzing and evangelizing for nonviolent resistance on the basis of its utility and pragmatic value for ...
The African Exponent
August 16, 2017
In 2015, Beirao and 16 others were arrested for “Acts of Rebellion” after attending a book club meeting where they discussed Gene Sharp's ...
Aristeguinoticias
August 15, 2017
Entre otras cosas, porque el efecto sorpresa del modelo de “regime change” del “filosofo” Gene Sharp y los miserables del Albert Einstein ...
La Razón (blog)
August 15, 2017
Entre otras cosas, porque el efecto sorpresa del modelo de “regime change” del “filosofo” Gene Sharp y los miserables del Albert Einstein ...
Open Democracy
August 14, 2017
On the one hand, it is true that one of first accounts to highlight the presence of the Egyptian uprisings was Gene Sharp's books on Tahrir ...
Berita Harian
August 8, 2017
Dalam sebuah ceramah yang saya ikuti, seorang penceramah ada menyebut buku tulisan Gene Sharp yang jadi rujukan aktivis pembangkang ...
CubaDebate
August 5, 2017
... Joanne Leedom-Acckerman, ex miembro de la junta directiva del Albert Einstein Institution, vinculado a Gene Sharp y a los “golpes suaves”.
Open Democracy
July 19, 2017
IS: You contrast what you call Gandhian resistance with the pragmatic nonviolent action that people like Gene Sharp advocate. What are the ...
Dissident Voice
July 17, 2017
Serbian translations of Gene Sharp's writings on nonviolent action were used and the key leaders were personally trained by Sharp's associate ...
MediaEd.org
April 20, 2017
The man in question is Gene Sharp, a soft-spoken, 89-year-old professor who spends much of his time in his small Boston home reading, ...
JSTOR Daily
February 28, 2017
Ask Gene Sharp, who has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now in his 89th year, the theorist of nonviolent resistance has ...
Scientific American (blog)
November 20, 2016
Gene Sharp advocates nonviolent activism for practical rather than moral or spiritual reasons. He rejects religious exhortations that we should ...
Wortfm
December 31, 1999
The film explores the real life applications of the nonviolent struggle principles of Gene Sharp. Sponsored by the Grey Panthers of Madison.
Open Democracy
March 22, 2017
Every day actions of millions of people have taken one or several methods from Gene Sharp's famous 198 ways of non-violent resistance , ranging from drama, music and cartoons to local strikes and demonstrations, and silent protests; from slogans and ...
IMGpress
March 21, 2017
Nel libro si fa riferimento a un testo di uno studioso americano, Gene Sharp, che aiutato da alcuni veterani di Solidarnocs, ha scritto un libro,"Dalla dittatura alla democrazia" (1993) utilizzato in Serbia per far cadere pacificamente il regime di ...
Morung Express
March 20, 2017
In fact, Gene Sharp, a Senior Scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, Massachusetts, is explicit in his understanding of the idiom when he says, "No outside force is coming to give oppressed people the freedom they so much want.
Boing Boing
March 19, 2017
Jamila Raqib is a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab and is Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by Gene Sharp, who literally wrote the book on successful nonviolent resistance. report this ad. Raqib doesn't advocate ...
Boing Boing
March 19, 2017
Jamila Raqib is a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab and is Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by Gene Sharp, who literally wrote the book on successful nonviolent resistance. report this ad. Raqib doesn't advocate ...
Waging Nonviolence
March 17, 2017
In the words of author and theorist Gene Sharp, the constructive program was an attempt "to begin building a new social order even as the old one still exists," with decentralized cooperatives "functioning independently of the state and other ...
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