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The '''Albert Einstein Institution''' as described in its own website:
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The '''Albert Einstein Institution''' (AEI) as described in its own website:
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:Founded in 1983 by Dr. Gene Sharp, The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. It is committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.<br>To further its mission, the Institution has supported research projects (for examples, see our publications section), actively consulted with resistance and pro-democracy groups (including groups in Burma, Thailand, Tibet, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Serbia, and the Occupied Territories), and worked to publicize the power and potential of nonviolent struggle around the world through educational materials, analyses, translations, workshops, and media visibility.[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations.php3?orgid=88&typeID=6&action=printContentItem&itemID=15]
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:Founded in 1983 by Dr. [[Gene Sharp]], The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. It is committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.<br>To further its mission, the Institution has supported research projects (for examples, see our publications section), actively consulted with resistance and pro-democracy groups (including groups in Burma, Thailand, Tibet, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Serbia, and the Occupied Territories), and worked to publicize the power and potential of nonviolent struggle around the world through educational materials, analyses, translations, workshops, and media visibility.<ref>Albert Einstein Institution, [http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsc506.html "Background"], Albert Einstein Institution website, accessed March 2009.</ref>
  
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An alternative description is:
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In 1989, "The Einstein Institution’s Board of Directors, meeting in September, approved
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:The Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) has played the key role in recent years in training and deploying youth movements to help prepare the conditions for coups through fostering the impression that the targeted regimes are deeply unpopular, and through destabilizing those regimes through their demonstrations and the like. The group, which is funded by the Soros foundations and the US government, is led by former DIA officer Col. Robert Helvey, and Harvard University's Dr. Gene Sharp.[Mowat, [http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-3/031905mowat-3.html]]
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a grant of $6,000 to the [[Civilian-Based Defense Association]], a one hundred percent increase over last year’s funding level. The grant is specifically to provide general support for the production and distribution of the Association’s newsletter, ''Civilian-Based Defense: News and Opinion''." <ref>[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/02-fall89-1.pdf Nonviolent Sanctions Newsletter], AEI, 1989.</ref>
  
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==Swarming Adolescents==
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In 1995, AEI noted that "The [[Program on Nonviolent Sanctions]], which receives financial support from the Albert Einstein Institution, has now joined with the [[Cultural Survival Center]], the research arm of [[Cultural Survival]], a [[human rights]] organization, to run the [[Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival]] (PNSCS) at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs." <ref>[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/21_spring95-1.pdf Nonviolent Sanctions Newsletter], AEI, Spring 1995.</ref>
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Some of this institute's activities were recently described in an article about the recent coup in Ukraine:
 
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:The creation and deployment of coups of any kind requires agents on the ground. The main handler of these coups on the "street side" has been the Albert Einstein Institution, which was formed in 1983 as an offshot of Harvard University under the impetus of Dr. Gene Sharp, and which specializes in "nonviolence as a form of warfare." Dr. Sharp had been the executive secretary of A.J. Muste, the famous U.S. Trotskyite labor organizer and peacenik. The group is funded by Soros and the NED. Albert Einstein's president is Col. Robert Helvey, a former US Army officer with 30 years of experience in Southeast Asia. He has served as the case officer for youth groups active in the Balkans and Eastern Europe since at least 1999.<br>Col. Helvey reports, in a January 29, 2001, interview with film producer Steve York in Belgrade, that he first got involved in "strategic nonviolence" upon seeing the failure of military approaches to toppling dictators—especially in Myanmar, where he had been stationed as military attaché—and seeing the potential of Sharp's alternative approach. According to B. Raman, the former director of India's foreign intelligence agency, RAW, in a December 2001 paper published by his institute entitled, "The USA's National Endowment For Democracy (NED): An Update," Helvey "was an officer of the Defence Intelligence Agency of the Pentagon, who had served in Vietnam and, subsequently, as the US Defence Attache in Yangon, Myanmar (1983 to 85), during which he clandestinely organised the Myanmarese students to work behind Aung San Suu Kyi and in collaboration with Bo Mya's Karen insurgent group. . . . He also trained in Hong Kong the student leaders from Beijing in mass demonstration techniques which they were to subsequently use in the Tiananmen Square incident of June 1989" and "is now believed to be acting as an adviser to the Falun Gong, the religious sect of China, in similar civil disobedience techniques." Col. Helvey nominally retired from the army in 1991, but had been working with Albert Einstein and Soros long before then.[http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905mowat-1.html]
 
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:As we shall see below, with such backing, Col. Helvey and his colleagues have created a series of youth movements including [[Otpor]]! in Serbia, [[Kmara]]! in Georgia, [[Pora]]! in Ukraine, and the like, which are already virally replicating other sects throughout the former Soviet Union, achieving in civilian form what had not been possible militarily in the 1980s. The groups are also spreading to Africa and South America.[ibid.]
 
  
 
==Funding==
 
==Funding==
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Between 2000 to 2004 they received some funding from:
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Between 2000 to 2004 they received some funding from<ref>Albert Einstein Institution, [http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/2000-04rpt.pdf ''Report on Activities 2000 to 2004''], Albert Einstein Institution website, 2004.(pdf)</ref>:
 
*[[Arca Foundation]]
 
*[[Arca Foundation]]
 
*[[California Community Foundation]]
 
*[[California Community Foundation]]
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*[[Mertz-Gilmore Foundation]]
 
*[[Mertz-Gilmore Foundation]]
 
*[[Miriam G. and Ira D. Wallach Foundation]]
 
*[[Miriam G. and Ira D. Wallach Foundation]]
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[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/2000-04rpt.pdf Report on Activities 2000 to 2004] (pdf)
 
  
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Between 1993 and 1999 they received funding from:
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Between 1993 and 1999 they received funding from<ref>Albert Einstein Institution, [http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/1993-99rpt.pdf ''Report on Activities 1993-1999''], Albert Einstein Institution website, 2000.(Pdf)</ref>:
 
*[[Arca Foundation]]
 
*[[Arca Foundation]]
 
*Burma Project of the [[Open Society Institute]]
 
*Burma Project of the [[Open Society Institute]]
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*[[Ploughshares Fund]]
 
*[[Ploughshares Fund]]
 
*[[United States Institute for Peace]]
 
*[[United States Institute for Peace]]
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[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/1993-99rpt.pdf pdf]
 
  
 
==People==
 
==People==
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===Board of Directors===
 
===Board of Directors===
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*[[Bob Helvey]] &ndash; President
 
 
*[[Cornelia Sargent]] &ndash; Chair  
 
*[[Cornelia Sargent]] &ndash; Chair  
 
*[[Elizabeth Defeis]]
 
*[[Elizabeth Defeis]]
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''Former Directors''
 
''Former Directors''
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*[[Hazel M. McFerson]] former chair [http://www.pactworld.org/about/board.htm#boswell]
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*[[Hazel M. McFerson]] former chair <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071008183225/http://www.pactworld.org/about/board.htm#mcferson "Board of Directors"], Pact website, archived from October 2007.</ref>
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*"*In 1994 “At the Albert Einstein Institution’s annual meeting in July, the board of directors elected [[Elizabeth F. Defeis]] as its new chair. She succeeds [[Thomas C. Schelling]], who served as the board’s chair for five years… The board also re-elected [[Christopher Kruegler]] as president, and elected [[Hazel M. McFerson]] as secretary-treasurer. At its fall meeting, the board of directors will welcome a new member," [[Dr. Stephen Marks]].<ref>AEI, “[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsbb9c.html Nonviolent Sanctions]”, vol. 6, no. 3
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*"*In 1994 “At the Albert Einstein Institution’s annual meeting in July, the board of directors elected [[Elizabeth F. Defeis]] as its new chair. She succeeds [[Thomas C. Schelling]], who served as the board’s chair for five years… The board also re-elected [[Christopher Kruegler]] as president, and elected [[Hazel M. McFerson]] as secretary-treasurer. At its fall meeting, the board of directors will welcome a new member," [[Dr. Stephen Marks]].<ref name="Masthead">AEI, “[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsbb9c.html Masthead], ''Nonviolent Sanctions: News from the Albert Einstein Institution'', Winter 1994/95, Vol. 6, no. 3, page 2.</ref>
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Winter 1994/95.</ref>
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*[[Richard Rockwell]] - 1994/95<ref name="Masthead"/>
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*[[Bob Helvey]] &ndash; President. (Helvey was on the board from approximately June 2003<ref>Albert Einstein Institution, [http://web.archive.org/web/20030812050502/www.aeinstein.org/board_staff.html "Board and Staff"], Albert Einstein Institution website, archived from June 2003.</ref> and approximately October 2006<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060206193602/aeinstein.org/organizations0043.html "Staff & Board"],  Albert Einstein Institution website, archived from October 2006.</ref> He authored a report, ''On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals''<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20061004114341/www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/OSNC.pdf ''On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals''], July 2004. (Pdf)</ref>, which acknowledges funding from a [[United States Institute of Peace]] grant SG-127-02S.
  
 
===Staff===
 
===Staff===
 
*[[Gene Sharp]] &ndash; Senior Scholar  
 
*[[Gene Sharp]] &ndash; Senior Scholar  
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*[[Hardy Merriman]] &ndash; Assistant to the Senior Scholar/Media and Outreach Coordinator
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*[[Jamila Raqib]] &ndash; Executive Director
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*[[Jamila Raqib]] &ndash; Office Manager/Translations Coordinator
 
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*[[Emilie Amstutz]] &ndash; Development Officer
 
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*[[Chris Miller]]
 
  
 
''Staff 2000'' <ref>[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/22_fall2000-1.pdf Nonviolent Struggle], AEI, vol 7. no. 1.m Fall 2000.</ref>
 
''Staff 2000'' <ref>[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/22_fall2000-1.pdf Nonviolent Struggle], AEI, vol 7. no. 1.m Fall 2000.</ref>
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*[[Bruce Jenkins]] served as Executive Director of The Albert Einstein Institution from 1995-2000. [http://www.bicusa.org/en/StaffMember.6.aspx]
 
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*[[Gene Sharp]]
 
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*[[Stephen Coady]] - Administrative Coordinator
 
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*[[Ronald M. McCarthy]] - Director Fellows Program
 
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*[[Chris Miller]] - Program Assistant
 
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''Former Staff''
 
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*[[Connie Grice]] - Executive Director from 1986 to 1988
 
  
 
===Advisors (1993-1999)===
 
===Advisors (1993-1999)===
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[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/1993-99rpt.pdf pdf]
 
[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/1993-99rpt.pdf pdf]
  
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==Affiliations==
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''Former Advisors''
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*[[NED]] &ndash; funding source
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*[[James Farmer]] - 1994/95 [http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/20_win94_95-2.pdf]
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*[[Soros Foundation]] &ndash; funding source
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==Former Directors (1990)==
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Accessed August 2008: <ref>[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/scannedPDFs/Biennial%20Report%20-%201988-1990.pdf Biennial Report 1988-1990], AEI, accessed August 6, 2008.</ref>
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*[[Peter Ackerman]]
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*[[Philip Bogdonoff]]
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*[[Chester Haskell]]
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*[[Joanne Leedom-Ackerman]]
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*[[Christopher Kruegler]]
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*[[Richard Rockwell]]
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*[[Thomas C. Schelling]]
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*[[Gene Sharp]]
  
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==Contact==
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==Contact information==
 
The Albert Einstein Institution <br>
 
The Albert Einstein Institution <br>
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427 Newbury Street<br>
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PO Box 455<br>
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Boston, MA 02115<br>
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East Boston, MA 02128<br>
 
USA <br>
 
USA <br>
 
Phone: USA +617-247-4882<br>
 
Phone: USA +617-247-4882<br>
 
Fax: USA +617-247-4035 <br>
 
Fax: USA +617-247-4035 <br>
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E-mail at: einstein AT igc.org<br>
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E-mail: einstein@igc.org<br>
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Website: http://www.aeinstein.org  
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Web: http://www.aeinstein.org
  
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==Resources and articles==
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==Articles and Resources==
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===SourceWatch Resources===
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===Related SourceWatch Articles===
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*[[NED]] - former funder
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*[[Soros Foundation]]
 
*[[Swarming Youths]]
 
*[[Swarming Youths]]
 
*[[Otpor]]
 
*[[Otpor]]
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*[[Uche Ewelukwa]]
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*[[Howard Clark]]
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*[[Stephen Crawford]]
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*[[Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy]]
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*[[Arthur Edelstein]]
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*[[Douglas A. Johnson]] - former fellow (in the 1980s)
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*[[Center for the Study of Strategic Nonviolent Defense]]
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*[[Albert Einstein Peace Foundation]]
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*[[Open Letter in Support of Gene Sharp and Strategic Nonviolent Action]]
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*[[Charles Bloomstein]]
  
 
===References===
 
===References===
 
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===External Resources===
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===External Articles===
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*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.  Contains references to the role played by AEI in Ukraine.
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* 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.  Contains references to the role played by AEI in Ukraine.
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*Jonathan Mowat, "[http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-2/031905mowat-2.html Who is Col. Bob Helvey?]", Online Journal, March 19, 2005.  Contains discussion of the instigator of AEI.
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* Jonathan Mowat, "[http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-2/031905mowat-2.html Who is Col. Bob Helvey?]", Online Journal, March 19, 2005.  Contains discussion of the instigator of AEI.
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*Jonathan Mowat, "[http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-3/031905mowat-3.html The Coup Plotters]: The Albert Einstein Institution", Online Journal, March 19, 2005.  Contains discussion of AEI.
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* Jonathan Mowat, "[http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-3/031905mowat-3.html The Coup Plotters]: The Albert Einstein Institution", Online Journal, March 19, 2005.  Contains discussion of AEI.
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*Thierry Meyssan, "[http://www.voltairenet.org/article30032.html The Albert Einstein Institution: non-violence according to the CIA]", ''Voltairenet'', January 4, 2005.
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* Thierry Meyssan, "[http://www.voltairenet.org/article30032.html The Albert Einstein Institution: non-violence according to the CIA]", ''Voltairenet'', January 4, 2005.
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* [[George Ciccariello-Maher]], "[http://www.counterpunch.org/maher04162008.html Einstein Turns in His Grave: AEI and Venezuela]", ''CounterPunch'', April 16, 2008.
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* Michael Field, "[http://www.stuff.co.nz/4592575a11.html Fiji claims NZ diplomat interfering in Govt]", ''Stuff'', June 22, 2008.
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* [[Stephen Zunes]], [http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5327 Sharp Attack Unwarranted], Foreign Policy in Focus commentary, 27 June 2008.
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* [[Stephen Gowans]], "[http://gowans.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/defending-the-indefensible-sham-democracy-promoter-defends-imperialist-ties/ Defending the Indefensible: Sham Democracy Promoter Defends Imperialist Ties]", ''What's Left'', June 29, 2008. (Response to Zunes article: "Sharp Attack Unwarranted")
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* Michael Barker, "[http://www.swans.com/library/art14/barker01.html Sharp Reflection Warranted: Nonviolence in the Service of Imperialism]", ''Swans'', June 30, 2008. (Response to Zunes article: "Sharp Attack Unwarranted")
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* George Cicariello-Maher & Eva Golinger, "[http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3690 Debate on the Albert Einstein Institution and its Involvement in Venezuela]", ''Venezuelanalysis'', August 5, 2008.
  
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Latest revision as of 11:07, 18 February 2012

The Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) as described in its own website:

Founded in 1983 by Dr. Gene Sharp, The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. It is committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.
To further its mission, the Institution has supported research projects (for examples, see our publications section), actively consulted with resistance and pro-democracy groups (including groups in Burma, Thailand, Tibet, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Serbia, and the Occupied Territories), and worked to publicize the power and potential of nonviolent struggle around the world through educational materials, analyses, translations, workshops, and media visibility.[1]

In 1989, "The Einstein Institution’s Board of Directors, meeting in September, approved a grant of $6,000 to the Civilian-Based Defense Association, a one hundred percent increase over last year’s funding level. The grant is specifically to provide general support for the production and distribution of the Association’s newsletter, Civilian-Based Defense: News and Opinion." [2]

In 1995, AEI noted that "The Program on Nonviolent Sanctions, which receives financial support from the Albert Einstein Institution, has now joined with the Cultural Survival Center, the research arm of Cultural Survival, a human rights organization, to run the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival (PNSCS) at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs." [3]

Funding

Between 2000 to 2004 they received some funding from[4]:

Between 1993 and 1999 they received funding from[5]:

People

Principals

Board of Directors

Director 2000 [6]

Former Directors

Staff

Staff 2000 [12]

Advisors (1993-1999)

pdf

Former Advisors

Former Directors (1990)

Accessed August 2008: [13]

Contact information

The Albert Einstein Institution
PO Box 455
East Boston, MA 02128
USA
Phone: USA +617-247-4882
Fax: USA +617-247-4035
E-mail: einstein@igc.org
Web: http://www.aeinstein.org

Articles and Resources

Related SourceWatch Articles

References

  1. ↑ Albert Einstein Institution, "Background", Albert Einstein Institution website, accessed March 2009.
  2. ↑ Nonviolent Sanctions Newsletter, AEI, 1989.
  3. ↑ Nonviolent Sanctions Newsletter, AEI, Spring 1995.
  4. ↑ Albert Einstein Institution, Report on Activities 2000 to 2004, Albert Einstein Institution website, 2004.(pdf)
  5. ↑ Albert Einstein Institution, Report on Activities 1993-1999, Albert Einstein Institution website, 2000.(Pdf)
  6. ↑ Nonviolent Struggle, AEI, vol 7. no. 1.m Fall 2000.
  7. ↑ "Board of Directors", Pact website, archived from October 2007.
  8. ↑ Jump up to: 8.0 8.1 AEI, “Masthead, Nonviolent Sanctions: News from the Albert Einstein Institution, Winter 1994/95, Vol. 6, no. 3, page 2.
  9. ↑ Albert Einstein Institution, "Board and Staff", Albert Einstein Institution website, archived from June 2003.
  10. ↑ "Staff & Board", Albert Einstein Institution website, archived from October 2006.
  11. ↑ On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals, July 2004. (Pdf)
  12. ↑ Nonviolent Struggle, AEI, vol 7. no. 1.m Fall 2000.
  13. ↑ Biennial Report 1988-1990, AEI, accessed August 6, 2008.

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