Gene Sharp Biography

Gene Sharp is Senior Scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, Massachusetts. He held research appointments in Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs for nearly thirty years.

Dr. Sharp has been called “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare,” founded the Albert Einstein Institution in 1983 to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and oppression.

He holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in political theory from Oxford University (1968), a Master of Arts in Sociology (1951), and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (1949) from Ohio State University.

Dr. Sharp is the author of several books on nonviolent struggle, power, political problems, dictatorships, Gandhi, and defense policy. His writings have been published in English in several countries and in at least forty-five other languages. Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle: Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts will be published by Oxford University Press in New York on November 1, 2011.

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