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...
Adam Roberts
Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions (1991)
Introduction
The death knell of communist rule, which has now ended in all European countries, was sounded not by nuclear weapons, nor even for the most part by the use of military force, but by civil resistance. In the last quarter of 1989, "people power" in v...
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...
Bruce Jenkins & Gene Sharp
The Anti-Coup (2004)
From the Introduction
Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent decades. Coups have overthrown established constitutional dem...
