Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies
The Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies , CANVAS for short , German Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies , is an organization that deals with nonviolent resistance. It trains pro-democracy activists around the world.
The organization was founded in Belgrade in 2004 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srđa Popović . The experiences of Otpor are conveyed ! and basics of non-violence according to Gene Sharp, among others . Mohamed Adel, co-founder of the Youth Movement of April 6th in Egypt, received a course in Belgrade in July 2010.
The organization's publications include the guide Nonviolent struggle - 50 crucial points and the documentary Bringing down Serbia's dictator . A computer simulation was also developed as a game.
CANVAS is financed by foreign countries, in particular from US sources. The American non-governmental organization Freedom House , headed by former CIA director James Woolsey, trains trainers and finances “activist camps”. Other sponsors that counts Open Society Institute of George Soros .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Review: Serbia / Egypt Revolution Export. Das Erste , March 6, 2011 ( online ( Memento of March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
- ^ Resistance guru Srdja Popovic Revolution as a business. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 14, 2011 ( online )
- ↑ Tina Rosenberg: Revolution U - What Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic . February 16, 2011 ( online )
- ↑ Fantasy Island: Democracy Edition. Mother Jones, March / April 2010 ( online )
- ^ Blueprint for a revolution. In: Financial Times , March 18, 2011 ( online )
- ↑ Dusan Stojanovic and Jovana Gec, Associated Press: Serbian Ousters Of Milosevic Made Mark in Egypt. February 22, 2011 ( online )
- ↑ a b c Exporters of the soft coup. Otpor - or how do you become a revolutionary? In: tagesschau.de , July 30, 2010 ( online ( memento of November 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))