Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Gene Sharp

Born: January 21, 1928
Died: January 28, 2018 (aged 90)
Bio: Gene Sharp was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and was a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Known for:
- From Dictatorship to Democracy (1994)
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973)
- Role of power in nonviolent struggle (1990)
- Making Europe Unconquerable (1985)