Free Books by
Gene Sharp & Others
The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organisation founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps the seminal text on nonviolent direct action, where King responds to criticisms from white clergy regarding the methods of the U.S. Black Freedom Movement.
Adapted from Bill Moyer
A conceptual framework for analysing social movements, and for understanding the different and necessary roles in achieving social change.
Gene Sharp
Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of “nonviolent weapons” at their disposal. In this document is listed 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. Based on material found in volume two of The Politics of Nonviolent Action, by Gene Sharp.
