Back مركز العمل و الاستراتيجيات التطبيقيه اللاعنفيه ARZ Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies German Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies Spanish Centre pour les actions et stratégies non violentes appliquées French 非暴力行動與戰略應用中心 Chinese

Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies

Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies
AbbreviationCANVAS
Formation2004 (2004)
FounderSrđa Popović, Slobodan Đinović
HeadquartersBelgrade
Location
Region served
International

The Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) is a non-profit, non-governmental, educational institution focused on the use of nonviolent conflict, based in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 2004 by Srđa Popović and the CEO of Orion Telecom, Slobodan Đinović. Both were former members of the Serbian youth resistance movement, Otpor!, which supported the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000.[1] Drawing upon the Serbian experience, CANVAS seeks to educate pro-democracy activists around the world in what it regards as the universal principles for success in nonviolent struggle.

Established in Belgrade, CANVAS has worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries,[2] including Iran, Zimbabwe, Burma, Venezuela, Ukraine, Georgia, Palestine, Western Sahara, West Papua, Eritrea, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Tonga and, recently, Tunisia and Egypt.[3]

CANVAS' training and methodology has been successfully applied by groups in Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004), Lebanon (2005), The Maldives (2008)?, Egypt (2011)?, Syria (2011)? and Ukraine (2014). It works only in response to requests for assistance.

  1. ^ "Who We Are -Slobodan-Djinovic". CANVAS. Archived from the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, Tina (16 February 2011) Revolution U – What Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic Archived 17 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Foreign Policy. Retrieved 20 July 2011
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Di Giovanni was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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