Gene Sharp is a 2009 Nobel Prize nominee who founded the Albert Einstein Institution as a place dedicated to the study and advancement of non-violent protests and revolutions. He is called the Machiavelli of non-violence, and even though most people have not heard of him, the influence his work has had in the political world’s political realm is undeniable. According to his teachings, the moment people decide to fight with violence, they give the opportunity to the government of implementing its best weapons, and the general public can’t compete with the ballistic capacity of a government’s army. In order to prevent this, he encourages the public to be smarter, and in his books he teaches 198 “weapons” that people can use in order to not use violence, and still be relevant as a revolutionary group. Due to lack of context and knowledge regarding the Burma, he ended up creating “From Dictatorship to Democracy” for …show more content…
Sharp’s book didn’t focus on specific countries, movements, religions or cultures, but its teachings on toppling dictatorships were still successful in Burma, which is why it then spread to Thailand and Serbia. The book kept getting spread around the world, from Eastern Europe to South America and the Middle East, and since its teachings clearly were successful, countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela even took active actions against the book being sold in those countries, Russia even going as far as having the libraries that sold it burned. Sharp clearly is a man very influential when it comes to overthrowing oppressing governments, his teachings