From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Manual

I wanted to add this to my blog to raise awareness of this document.

I just learned of this in a NY Times op-ed by Kristof called "The Power of Mockery"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/opinion/17kristof.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

By "Mockery" Kristof is talking about the non-violent protest methods used in the Middle East to bring down governments such as that in Egypt. Originally, apparently a Serbian youth movement, Otpor, developed a set of methods to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.

Young people working together to non-violently protest an injustice can have a lot of power, especially in the age of Twitter and YouTube.

The link to the manual From Dictatorship to Democracy is here.

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf

From the Appendix:

“From Dictatorship to Democracy” was written at the request
of the late U Tin Maung Win, a prominent exile Burmese democrat
who was then editor of Khit Pyaing (The New Era Journal).
The preparation of this text was based over forty years of research
and writing on nonviolent struggle, dictatorships, totalitarian
systems, resistance movements, political theory, sociological analysis,
and other fields."