From the 494 B.C. plebeians' march out of Rome to gain improved status, to Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India, to the liberation of Poland and the Baltic nations, and the revolutions in North Africa, nonviolent struggles have played pivotal roles in world events for centuries. Sharp's Dictionary[...]
"Instructs how to strategically plan nonviolent action, a technique of waging conflict that uses protest, noncooperation and intervention. Draws parallels between nonviolent and military strategy. Documents twenty-three cases showing how nonviolent action has been applied to conflicts throughout the[...]
Chronicles the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band Kiss, culminating with the success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single Rock and Roll All Nite, a song that nearly four decades later remains one of the band's most enduring anthems.[...]
"Instructs how to strategically plan nonviolent action, a technique of waging conflict that uses protest, noncooperation and intervention. Draws parallels between nonviolent and military strategy. Documents twenty-three cases showing how nonviolent action has been applied to conflicts throughout the[...]
From Dictatorship to Democracy was a pamphlet, printed and distributed by Dr Gene Sharp and based on his study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration. Now in its fourth edition, it was originally handed out by the Albert Einstein Institution, and although never active[...]
Gene Sharp (1928), professori statsvitenskap, er kjent for sitt arbeid om ikkevold, og regnes i dag som ikkevoldsopprørets fremste teoretiker. - Det gjelder å fjerne frykten for diktaturet, sier Sharp. Avhengighet av frykt er diktaturets akilleshæl. For å unngå fristelsen til å gjengjelde vold[...]
Gene Sharps lille bog, Fra diktatur til demokrati har rejst verden rundt via internettet, og givet demokratiske bevægelser konkrete ´opskrifter´ på at vælte diktatorerne i deres land ved at finde deres svage punkter. Fra Burma og Bangkok til Serbien og Ukraine, og senest til Egypten, [...]
I Inget att förlora berättas för första gången om de första så viktiga åren i det legendariska rockbandet Kiss historia, en period som når sin kulmen i och med släppet av deras klassiska album Alive! 1975 och hitsingeln Rock and Roll All Nite, en låt som nästan fyra decennier senare fort[...]