Film Screening: How to Start a Revolution

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Johnson Center Cinema
5:00pm 

"How to Start a Revolution" is a documentary film on the work of Gene Sharp, author and founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization devoted to the study and advancement of the use of nonviolent action in conflict.

Dr. Sharp's books include works such as 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). Most recently, Dr. Sharp wrote Waging Nonviolent Struggle: Twentieth Century Practice and Twenty-First Century Potential.