The Godfather of Nonviolent Resistance?
Photo: Gene Sharp, founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, pictured in his East Boston office last year. (Mary Knox Merrill/The Christian Science Monitor)
From his two room office in East Boston, Massachusetts, 81-year-old Gene Sharp runs the Albert Einstein Institution; Sharp has inspired opposition movements around the world. His slender book “From Dictatorship to Democracy” has been translated into more than 30 languages. In it, he lays out a framework to resist dictatorial governments. This past summer, 100 reformists in Iran were accused of attempting a coup with ‘the instruction of Gene Sharp.”
I heard about this many on the show aired on NPR called, “Here and Now.” May every Arab learn from this man.
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