Protests in Belgrade and Throughout Yugoslavia, Part II

Balkan Peace Team - Belgrade
Special Report: January 23, 1997

This report covers the protests and other political develop- ments in Yugoslavia since December 9, 1996. It picks up where our first report left off, after the annulment of local election results in Serbia and the subsequent public protests.
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FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY
A conceptual framework for liberation

Gene Sharp
Senior Scholar-in-Residence
The Albert Einstein Institution

One of my major concerns for many years has been how people could prevent and destroy dictatorships. This has been nurtured in part because of a belief that human beings should not be dominated and destroyed by such regimes. That belief has been strengthened by readings on the importance of human freedom, on the nature of dictatorships (from Aristotle to analysts of totalitarianism), and histories of dictatorships (especially the Nazi and Stalinist systems).
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