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Members of NGO "Women in Black" attend a protest in Belgrade, Serbia, July 10, 2010, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 to raise public awareness of the war crimes. (Xinhua/Beta) ...
... reading from non-violence literature. Yet, they know that Uganda could not be more repressive than Milosovic's Serbia. In Serbia, young people organised themselves using meagre resources and were later ...
... be of use. While he boasts that he's never been arrested outside of his native Serbia, nor deported or even denied a visa, he acknowledges that there are "a few countries that I would be prohibited to ...
Author Srdja Popovic Narodni Pokret Otpor (People’s Resistance Movement) Publication Date January 31, 2001 Summary In this document, Srdja Popovic, an organiser in the Serbian youth resistance movement, ...
5. Dr. Stephen Zunes
(Biographies/Guest Lecturers Biographies )
... (Syracuse University Press.)  Dr. Zunes was among the leading American critics of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the 1999 U.S.-led war on Serbia.  He  has spoken at over 100 colleges ...
6. John A. Gould
(Biographies/Guest Lecturers Biographies )
... and Serbia,” with Carl Sickner. Review of International Political Economy 15:4. Fall 2008. •    “Market Democracy Unleashed? Business Elites and the Crisis of Competitive Authoritarianism ...
7. Živorad Anđelković
(Biographies/Lecturers Biographies )
Date of birth: October 29, 1969. Place of birth: Gnjilane, Serbia.  Education: Graduated on the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, 1997; Master degree in technical sciences, Faculty of Organizational ...
8. Slobodan Đinović
(Biographies/Lecturers Biographies )
Slobodan Đinović is an innovator in democracy and technology, founding Serbia’s first wireless internet company and a founder of the Resistance! movement that ended the Milosevic era. He has since become ...
9. Srđa Popović
(Biographies/Lecturers Biographies )
... aplied Nonviolent Action & Strategies (CANVAS), Belgrade 2001. - 2004. Spatial advisor to the prime minister of Serbia 2000. - 2004. Member of Serbian National assembly 2000.  Member of Belgarde City ...
Otpor! (“Resistance!” in Serbo-Croatian) prepared “Plan B” demonstrations outside of police stations to respond immediately to arrests during protest events in Serbia. Whenever the police arrested activists ...
... people.” Meanwhile, Mr. Sazegara continues preaching his message of nonviolent action on a nightly basis. Drawing direct parallels with popular uprisings in countries such as Serbia, he advises protesters ...
When members of the Honduran civil resistance solicited the counsel of Serbian resistance veteran Ivan Marovich from July 31 to August 2, a repeat question from various participants was: Q. How do we avoid ...
... Iran. They have studied the nonviolent struggles in Chile, South Africa and Serbia. They understand the dynamics of civil resistance and the power of simply withdrawing individual complicity in oppression. ...
14. Nonviolent Resistance Works
(Articles/General)
... which would galvanize national discontent with Milošević and eventually result in his defeat. Some students who led Otpor used Serbian translations of Gene Sharp's writings on nonviolent action as a theoretical ...
... youth wing of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's People's Strength (Syla Narodu) coalition. Others think it is a newly-minted movement on the model of the Otpor and Kmara agitators in the Serbian and ...
16. Serbs protest over Kosovo
(Articles/General)
More than a thousand demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto yesterday to protest an independent Kosovo. Waving Serbian flags and chanting "Kosovo is Serbia," the peaceful ...
After the protest young Serbs of Vancouver spontaneously gathered on the steps of Vancouver Art Gallery to sing 'Vidovdan' and tell the world that Kosovo is Serbia! Despite provocations ...
18. The silent revolution
(Articles/General)
... by Canvas were born out of Otpor, a youth movement in Serbia, which has been credited with the bloodless revolution that brought down Slobodan Milosovic. “Maldives was fourth in line of our successes,” ...
Tens of thousands of demonstrators crowded downtown streets today calling for the resignation of Serbia's President as the first effects of United Nations sanctions were being felt. ...
20. Otpor’s Logo
(Articles/General)
... its "Gotov je" (He's finished) campaign which would galvanize national discontent with Milošević and eventually result in his defeat. Some students who led Otpor used Serbian translations of Gene Sharp's ...
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