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Gene Sharp

National Security Through Civilian Based Defense (1985)

National Security Through Civilian Based Defense (1985) by Gene Sharp

PREFACE

Many people are now convinced that we need alternatives to present military deterrence and defense policies. The alternatives are usually still sought within the context of military assumptions and means, and so far only rarely beyond them. The search for alternative...

Gene Sharp

Self Liberation - A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (2009)

Self Liberation - A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (2009) by Gene Sharp

Which way to liberation?

Many people live in countries with governments that can be identified as dictatorships, or less harshly, authoritarian regimes. Usually, most of the people in those countries would like their oppres...

Gene Sharp

Making Abolition Of War A Realistic Goal (1980)

Making Abolition Of War A Realistic Goal (1980) by Gene Sharp

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)

Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany (1993) by Roland Bleiker

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...

Gene Sharp

How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013)

How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013) by Gene Sharp

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...