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From dictatorship to democracy a conceptual framework for liberation

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Housmans Bookshop The New Press 2011Description: xvi,136pISBN:
  • 9781595588500
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.9SHA
Summary: Twenty-one years ago, at a friend&́#128;™s request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuela?where both countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state?to Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring.
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Book Book UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 321.9SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 005046

Twenty-one years ago, at a friend&́#128;™s request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuela?where both countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state?to Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring.

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