Nobel Peace Prize; nonviolence scholarship

Nonviolence scholar nominated for 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

Gene Sharp, whose decades of research and analyses of the effectiveness of nonviolence has been used worldwide to create or support fledgling democracies, has been nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee.

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