Gene Sharp (January 21, 1928 – January 28, 2018) was an American political scientist. He was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. [2] He was known for his extensive writings …

The Politics of Nonviolent Action is a three-volume political science book by Gene Sharp, originally published in the United States in 1973. Sharp is one of the most influential theoreticians of nonviolent action, and his publications have been influential in movements around the world.

May 10, 2019 · The late Gene Sharp is known worldwide as a Gandhi-like champion of nonviolent protest. But he is better understood as one of the most important U.S. defense intellectuals of the Cold War and a neoliberal theorist who advocated nonviolent action as a means to "State decentralization."

Dec 30, 2018 · Gene, who died a few months after my visit, in January, might not be a household name. But he founded the academic field of nonviolent resistance. His books and his list of 198 methods of...

Dec 20, 2023 · Discover the life and work of Gene Sharp, a prominent political scientist and nonviolent action advocate, who is known for his influential writings on civil resistance and the theory of power.

Feb 22, 2011 · Sharp is now a senior scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution, which he founded. It is "dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts...

Gene Sharp has died and the world has lost a global educator. by Jørgen Johansen. Just a week after his 90th birthday Gene Sharp passed away. The journal New Statesman once described Gene Sharp as the “Machiavelli of Nonviolence” and Thomas Weber labelled him “the Clausewitz of Nonviolent Action.”

Dr. Sharp, who has been called "the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare," founded the Albert Einstein Institution in 1983 to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and oppression.

Feb 7, 2018 · Sharp, a political scientist who continued his studies on peace and power from the Albert Einstein Institution he founded, died peacefully at his home in Boston on January 28. Though he had recently celebrated his 90th birthday, …

Feb 21, 2011 · Gene Sharp is the world's foremost expert on non-violent revolution. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, his books slipped across borders and hidden from...