Peter Ackerman is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, D.C., and one of the world's leading authorities on nonviolent conflict.
He is also chairman of the board of Freedom House, a member of the
board of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the executive council of
the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
In addition to many newspaper articles and op-eds, Ackerman is
co-author of two seminal books on nonviolent resistance: A Force More
Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press
2001) and Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the
Twentieth Century (Praeger 1994).
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Last Updated: Nov 18, 2010
