The Albert Einstein Institution is a US-based non-profit organization that specializes in the study of the methods of non-violent resistance. Its founder and senior scholar, Gene Sharp, is the foremost writer on strategic nonviolent struggle. Dr. Sharp and the Albert Einstein Institution's president, retired US Army Lt. Col. Robert Helvey, have used Dr. Sharp's insights in nonviolent action to train pro-democracy movements around the world, including activists in Serbia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Burma and elsewhere. Activists from Otpor in Serbia and Pora in Ukraine have said that publications and training they received from Albert Einstein Institution staff have been instrumental to the formation of their strategies. A non-profit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Nonviolent resistance (or nonviolent action) is the practice of applying power to achieve socio-political goals through symbolic protests, economic or political noncooperation, civil disobedience and other methods, without the use of physical violence. ... Gene Sharp (born 1928) is a political scientist, author and founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organisation which studies and promotes the use of nonviolent action. ... Otpors Logo Otpor! (Cyrillic: ОТПОР!, in English: Resistance!) was a pro-democracy youth movement in Serbia which has been widely credited for leading the eventually successful struggle to overthrow Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević in 2000. ... Pora! (Cyrillic: ПОРА!), meaning ITS TIME! in Ukrainian, is a civic youth organization in Ukraine espousing nonviolent resistance and advocating increased national democracy, in opposition to what they claim is the authoritarian governing style of Ukraines president Leonid Kuchma. ...
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Albert Einstein Institution web site
The Albert Einstein Institution: non-violence according to the CIA, Voltaire Network, January 2005
AlbertEinstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) was a German-born Jewish theoretical physicist, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century.
Einstein divorced Mileva on February 14, 1919, and married his cousin Elsa Löwenthal (born Einstein: Löwenthal was the surname of her first husband, Max) on June 2, 1919.
Einstein also assisted Erwin Schrödinger in the development of the quantum Boltzmann distribution, a mixed classical and quantum mechanical gas model although he realized that this was less significant than the Bose-Einstein model and declined to have his name included on the paper.
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