So I'm currently taking a Peace and Conflict Studies course titled "Roots of Conflict, Violence, and Peace" by distance education and learning all sorts of interesting information. The materials for the current module I'm working on include a link to this site: The Albert Einstein Institution which is "a nonprofit organization advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world." I haven't looked around it too much yet, aside from the publications tab where you can download for free various books and information on the subject of nonviolence.
Today I was reading through last weekend's local newspaper and came across this article about Gene Sharp, the founder of this organization. He wrote a book, 85 pages long, titled From Dictatorship to Peace (I'm linking to the English version, not the Farsi version mentioned in the article) and it seems this book is a very hot title in Iran these days. I downloaded it tonight, although I'm not sure when I'm going to find the time to read it. I hope it helps change things over there. Apparently it helped them in Eastern Europe not so long ago.
Don't you just love synchronicity?
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