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'''Jack DuVall''' is the president of [[International Center on Nonviolent Conflict]] (ICNC), an organization that has produced what can only be termed [[propaganda films]] shown on PBS and on university campuses around the US. Note that ICNC is also a project of [[Peter Ackerman]], a right-wing operator. DuVall and [[James Woolsey]], the former head of the CIA, founded the [[The Arlington Institute]]. From the official biography distrubuted at a recent student event::Jack DuVall is the founding Director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He was the Executive Producer of the two-part Emmy-nominated PBS television series, A Force More Powerful and co-author of the companion book of the same name. Earlier in his career, Mr. DuVall developed, marketed and executive-produced non-fiction television programming, with clients including the Turner Broadcasting System, The Learning Channel, KCET/Los Angeles, The Christian Science Monitor, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the British Consulate General/Los Angeles, the Vision Interfaith Satellite Network, and over 30 other television and non-profit organizations. Mr. DuVall was also Vice President for Program Resources of [[WETA]], Washington, D.C. and previously was Director of Corporate Relations of The University of Chicago; Director of Industry Compliance, Cost of Living Council, Executive Office of the President; and an officer in the U.S. Air Force. His writing has included speeches for presidential candidates in four national campaigns and poetry published in the Southern Poetry Review and other journals. He is a native of San Diego, California, holds a B.A. degree (cum laude) from Colgate University, and he presently serves as a member of the board of The Arlington Institute and the board of sponsors of Morehouse College.[http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/sbdoves/announce.html] Writing in the Green Left Weekly in August 2007 Michael Barker notes that: :"In GLW #718, Jack Duvall, the president of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), published a letter in response to a couple of “errors” Eva Gollinger made in her interview “US continues destabilisation push in Venezuela” in GLW #716. Duvall denied accusations that his group had been involved in training activist groups involved in the recent “color revolutions” in Eastern Europe, and in opposing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. However, Duvall does admit in his letter that in March 2005 the ICNC “gave support to the [Albert] Einstein Institute for a workshop it conducted on nonviolent action for Venezuelans, [which was] held in Boston”.  :"This admission is significant because although Duvall claims the ICNC “ha[s] not and will not accept any support from any government for any purpose”, it has always worked closely with the [[Albert Einstein Institute]] [AEI] — a group that does work closely with the US government and the notorious [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED). Duvall gives a false impression that his organisation is totally isolated from US foreign policy elites.  :"Without prior knowledge of Duvall’s institutional affiliations, it is easy to believe that he and the ICNC are supporting progressive activists all over the world. But unfortunately his work (and that of his close colleagues) is intimately linked to the NED and much of the US-based “democracy promoting” establishment." <ref>Michael Barker, "[http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/722/37496 Promoting ‘democracy’ through civil disobedience]", ''Green Left Weekly'', August 25, 2007.</ref> In October 2007 Duvall acted as a facilitator at the "first major international conference of its kind on the prevention of genocide. From October 11th to 13th, 2007, in Montreal, Canada, [[The Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide]] will bring together from around the world survivors, witnesses, legislators, diplomats, activists and others whose lives have been forever changed by humanity’s most horrific invention." <ref>[http://efchr.mcgill.ca/HomePage_en.php?menu=19 The Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide], McGill University, accessed December 17, 2007.</ref> "Prior to his work with nonviolent conflict, DuVall was a public television executive and writer for 16 years, where he developed, marketed, executive-produced, and promoted nonfiction television programming. His writings include speeches for presidential candidates in four national campaigns. DuVall holds a B.A. (cum laude) from [[Colgate University]] and serves as a member of the Board of Sponsors of [[Morehouse College]] and as an associate of the [[Centre for Justice and Peace Development]] at Massey University, New Zealand." <ref>[http://www.gozaar.org/freeform.php?id=36&language=english Contributors], [[Gozaar]], accessed August 28, 2008.</ref>

:"&hellip;instead of celebrating these events, many pundits and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic have been debating the propriety of U.S. and European funding for democracy-building in Ukraine. That debate misses the reality of how the Orange Revolution succeeded. Like all victories of people power in the past 25 years, it was achieved, not by foreign assistance, but by the indigenous force of ordinary citizens applying their own strategy to challenge autocratic power... Conspiracy theorists singled out training by veterans of Otpor, a Serbian student group that had helped topple Slobodan Milosevic. While they educated Ukrainians in nonviolent tactics, "it is not true that we are exporters of revolution," said Danijela Nenadic of the Center for Nonviolent Resistance in Belgrade. "There is no universal concept to fight authoritarianism. You have to have your own strategy.":So people power is not imported, it's homegrown. External aid can help, but it''Comment''': If US organizations poured $150m+ s neither necessary nor sufficient. With unity, planning and nonviolent discipline all harnessed to manipulate the electionsdetermination of people to be free, then it oppression can hardly be said that this was an insignificant contributiondefeated." *Jonathan Mowat, "[http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905mowat-1.html The new Gladio in action?]: Ukrainian postmodern coup completes testing of new template", Online Journal, March 19, 2005. FurthermoreContains references to DuVall. ==Book==*Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall, it is appropriate to discuss whether the US or its cohorts should be engaged in this type "[http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0312240503 A Force More Powerful: A Century of activityNonviolent Conflict], St. Martin's Press, 2000.

*The [[The Arlington Institute]] &ndash; Director