Gene Sharp
Gene Sharp is the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and is a retired professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which have influenced numerous antigovernment resistance movements around the world.
Sharp was born in North Baltimore, Ohio, the son of an itinerant Protestant minister. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences in 1949 from Ohio State University, where he also received his Master of Arts in Sociology in 1951. In 195354, Sharp was jailed for nine months after protesting the conscription of soldiers for the Korean War. He discussed his decision to go to prison for his beliefs in letters to Albert Einstein who wrote a foreword to his first book, on Gandhi. He worked as factory labourer, guide to a blind social worker, and secretary to A. J. Muste, Americas leading pacifist. Between 1955 and 1958 he was Assistant Editor of Peace News the weekly pacifist newspaper from where he helped organise the 1958 Aldermaston March. The next two years he studied and researched in Oslo with Professor Arne Nss, who derived together with Johan Galtung from Mohandas Gandhis writings the Satyagraha Norms. In 1968, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in political theory from Oxford
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