SELF-Liberation
Subtitle: a guide to strategic planning for action to end a dictatorship or other oppression
By: Gene Sharp ; with assistance from Jamila Raqib
Contributors: Albert Einstein Institution (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: Albert Einstein Institution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: East Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9781880813232
Subjects: Oppression (Psychology); Liberty; Social change
Description: This strategic planning guide is intended to assist people who wish themselves to plan a grand strategy, or super plan, to achieve their liberation from oppression and to build a more free and democratic system. This document is not only relevant to people facing internal dictatorships. It is also meant to be useful to people facing any kind of oppression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 43).
Table of contents: title: Which way to liberation; title: Moving beyond past experiences; title: Pragmatic and strategic; title: Gaining new knowledge; title: Baltic and Balkan experiences; title: Earlier planning; title: A new model for self-reliant planning?; title: Three types of knowledge; title: Basic strategic considerations: the sources of power of the opponents; title: Basic strategic considerations: the balance of dependencies; title: Basic strategic considerations: what is the status of civil society; title: Basic strategic considerations: do the campaign objectives and activities aggravate weaknesses of the oppressive system; title: Basic strategic considerations: the importance of the initiative in the conflict; title: Selecting the strategy drafters; title: Basic strategy decisions; title: Formulating a grand strategy; title: Self-empowerment; title: Escalating liberation; title: Steps toward the possible; title: Blocking a new dictatorship; title: Liberation not perfection.