Gene Sharp
Gene Sharp "is Senior Scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution and founded the Institution in 1983.
"He holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Ohio State University and a D.Phil. in political theory from Oxford University. He is also Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. For nearly thirty years he held a research appointment at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs.
"He is the author of various books, including The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973), Gandhi as a Political Strategist (1979), Social Power and Political Freedom (1980), Making Europe Unconquerable (1985), Civilian-Based Defense (1990), and From Dictatorship to Democracy (1993, 2002, and 2003). His most recent book is Waging Nonviolent Struggle: Twentieth Century Practice and Twenty-First Century Potential. His writings have been published in more than thirty languages." [1]
In 1983 he founded the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions in Conflict and Defense at Harvard University.
- 1974-76, Rockefeller Foundation fellow in conflict in international relations pdf
Contents
Degrees SupervisorsCV
- John Plamenatz (assigned to supervise Sharp by Alan Bullock) [1]
- Kurt H. Wolff
Criticism of Sharp from the Left
- Brian Martin, "Review of Gene Sharp, Making Europe Unconquerable", in Social Anarchism, No. 12, pp. 54-56 (1986-1987).
- George Ciccariello-Maher, "Einstein Turns in His Grave: AEI and Venezuela", CounterPunch, April 16, 2008. (Includes email from Gene to George.)
- George Cicariello-Maher, "The Albert Einstein Institute and Venezuela", Venezuelanalysis, May 5, 2008.
- Michael Barker, "Activist Education at the Albert Einstein Institution: A Critical Examination of Elite Cooption of Civil Disobedience," (pdf) Refereed paper presented to Activating Human Rights and Peace: Universal Responsibility 2008.
- Michael Barker, "Sharp Reflection Warranted: Nonviolence in the Service of Imperialism", Swans, June 30, 2008.
- Stephen Gowans, "Overthrow Inc.: Peter Ackerman’s quest to do what the CIA used to so, and make it seem progressive", What's Left, August 6, 2009.
- Michael Barker, "From Sharp to Lovins; Elite Reform as Social Change," Swans Commentary, July 26, 2010.
- Stephen Gowans, "Is Gene Sharp Superhuman?", What’s Left, February 16, 2011.
SourceWatch resources
- Open Letter in Support of Gene Sharp and Strategic Nonviolent Action
- Adam Roberts
- David Riesman wrote the foreword to Sharp's Exploring Nonviolent Alternatives (1970).
External links
References
- ↑ THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION and the spread of ideas about civil resistance, accessed May 21, 2010.
Other resources
- "Gene Sharp", (Biographical note), Undated, Accessed June 2007.
- "CV", (Biographical note), Undated, Accessed June 2007.
- Stephen Zunes, "Sharp Attack Unwarranted," Foreign Policy in Focus commentary, June 27, 2008.
