Ximena Bunster

"Ximena Bunster is an anthropologist form Santiago, Chile, who has been conducting participant-observer studies of opposition groups in Chile, in particular the Sebastian Acevedo Movement against Torture and Mujeres Por la Vida (Women for Life). She is writing about the significance of these groups for a possible transition to democracy in Chile. Her studies will have important implications for the use of nonviolent methods under conditions of severe repression."

• Former Visiting Scholar, Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival (PONSACS)

In 1989 she published "Non-Violent Alternatives in Chile's Quest for Democracy" with the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions.