Fletcher Summer Institute 2016

In a brief break from a lonely summer, we have company this week from The Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict (FSI), a professional education program focused on the advanced, interdisciplinary study of civil resistance.

Information promoting FSI tells us that:

Civil resistance campaigns for rights, freedom, and justice are capturing the world’s attention as never before.  Nonviolent campaigns against corruption in Guatemala, Moldova, and Cambodia; against dictatorship in Burkina Faso; to protect democracy in Hong Kong; for police accountability in the United States; for indigenous rights in Latin America; and for women’s rights in India are all examples in recent years of a profound global shift in how political power is developed and applied.

Since 2006, more than 450 participants from nearly 100 countries have gathered at FSI to learn and share knowledge.  FSI is organized by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in conjunction with the Fletcher School.

More information can, of course, be found on the FSI website.