Jamila Raqib is executive director of The Albert Einstein Institution, the brain-child of Gene Sharp, leading researcher in non-violent action & civilian-based defense. Jamila was a refugee from Afghanistan at age 4, with a keen and innate sense of the power of non-violence to preserve and obtain freedom and justice, at the least cost. The organization was founded in 1983 "to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and oppression." Plus, the 2nd installment of Myron Buchholz, History & Our Best Future, asking, Is War Ever Good? Additional resources: Video: Jamila Raqib - The Success of Nonviolent Struggle Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict by Erica Chenoweth & Maria Stephan

Original Air Date: 04/10/2016