Ohio State University (BA, MA) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Awards
Right Livelihood Award
Scientific career
Fields
Political science, civil resistance, nonviolent revolution
Institutions
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Harvard University, Albert Einstein Institution
Gene Sharp (January 21, 1928 – January 28, 2018) was an American political scientist. He was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.[2] He was known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which have influenced numerous anti-government resistance movements around the world.
Sharp received the 2008 Int’l Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for his lifelong commitment to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through scholarly analysis of the power of nonviolent action. Unofficial sources have claimed that Sharp was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015,[3] and had previously been nominated three times, in 2009, 2012 and 2013.[2][4][5] Sharp was widely considered the favorite for the 2012 award.[6][7][8] In 2011, he was awarded the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize.[9] In 2012, he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for "developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world".[10]
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^ abcArrow, Ruaridh (February 21, 2011). "Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook". BBC. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
^"Gene Sharp nominert til fredsprisen". Miljøpartiet De Grønne (Norwegian Green Party). mdg.no. February 2, 2015. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2017.. Sharp was nominated by Norwegian Green Party Member of Parliament Rasmus Hansson.
^"Nonviolence scholar nominated for 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Archived October 19, 2017, at the Wayback Machine" [press release]. American Friends Service Committee. afsc.org. February 25, 2013. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
^"Nobel Peace Prize 2012: PRIO Director's Speculations". Prio.no. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
^"Peace Institute Says Nobel Rankings Favor Sharp, Echo of Moscow". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on December 24, 2014.
^"Who will take home this year's Nobel Peace Prize?". CNN. October 12, 2012. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
^"Handicapping the Nobel Peace Prize". Archived from the original on November 11, 2014 – via Foreign Policy.
^"El-Hibri Peace Education Prize". Prize Laureates. El-Hibri Charitable Foundation. Archived from the original on November 22, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
^"Right Livelihood Award". List of Laureates. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
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successful and unsuccessful, could be included in a longer listing. In 1967 GeneSharp produced a list of 84 cases. He followed this with further surveys. In...
scrupulous in their non-violent resistance, as advocated and explained in GeneSharp's writings. In the 2000 Yugoslavian general election, activists that opposed...
coup as a strategy is attributed to the American political scientist GeneSharp, a Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts...
in 1976 in International Relations. While at Tufts, he studied under GeneSharp and Robert Pfaltzgraff. Ackerman's thesis, Strategic Aspects of Nonviolent...
physical and social infrastructure to support nonviolent resistance. GeneSharp defined transarmament as "the process of changeover from a military-based...
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necessary reference to discuss morality in politics. US political scientist GeneSharp wrote an analytical text, Gandhi as a political strategist, on the significance...
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movements such as those of Occupy, Gandhi's Satyagraha, the suffragettes, GeneSharp, Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the civil rights movement have been...
sanctions as a substitute for violent interventions. It was founded by GeneSharp, who also founded the independent non-profit Albert Einstein Institution...
documentary How to Start a Revolution about Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr GeneSharp. The film was described as an underground hit with the Occupy movement...
sites. His laboratory also studies how miRNA gene regulation functions in angiogenesis and cellular stress. Sharp was born in Falmouth, Kentucky, the son of...
strikes, effectively institutionalizing the term. Hartal is step 118 in GeneSharp's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action. The contemporary origins of this form...
university include Alexander Wendt, John Mueller, Randall Schweller, GeneSharp and Herb Asher. In 2023, Wendt was jointly awarded the Johan Skytte Prize...
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