Gene Sharp

GENE SHARP graduated in sociology at Ohio State University, and subsequently worked at the Institute of Social Research, Oslo, and later at Oxford where he has just completed a new volume on the theory, practice and political potentialities of non-violent action.

GENE SHARP graduated in sociology at Ohio State University, and after being jailed for resisting conscription, worked at the Institute of Social Research, Oslo, and is now doing research at Oxford on resistance to totalitarian regimes. He is the author of Tyranny Could not Quell Them about the resistance of the Norwegian teachers to Quisling, and of Gandhi Wields the Weapon of Moral Power.