Gene Sharp

Making Abolition Of War A Realistic Goal (1980)

INTRODUCTION

The destructiveness of modem war is widely understood. Yet most governments, backed by their populations, amass the largest array of military weaponry and forces of which they are capable. Clearly, none of the past proposals and movements to abolish war and to bring in...

Roland Bleiker

Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany (1993)

INTRODUCTION

We were more afraid of the people than the people had reason to be afraid of us.
(Statement by a member of the much feared Stasi, the East German State Security Service)

"We are the people" was the main battle cry of the nonviolent struggle that...

Olgerts Eglitis

Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia (1993)

INTRODUCTION

On June 14,1987, when all of East-Central Europe was still frozen by totalitarianism, news about an unsanctioned anti-Soviet demonstration in Latvia's capital, Riga, spread in the Western media. After that date the country never came to rest: the spell of fear...

Gene Sharp

How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013)

PREFACE

This small book offers the principal contents of the 902 pages of the original 1973 The Politics of Nonviolent Action to anyone who wants to learn the substance of how nonviolent struggle works.(1) That is, how the nonviolent technique can operate in conflicts, even when strong opponen...

Gene Sharp

There Are Realistic Alternatives (2003)

The Albert Einstein Institution Mission Statement

The mission of the Albert Einstein Institution is to advance the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict.

The Institution is committed to:

• defending democratic freedoms and institutions;
• opposing oppression...