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For 17 years Jamila Raqib worked closely with the late political thinker Gene Sharp, the foremost scholar of strategic nonviolent resistance and founder of the field. After Sharp’s death in January 2018, Jamila became director of the organization that he founded, the Albert Einstein Institution.

Metta Spencer talked with her in November on Peace Magazine’s weekly Facebook show.

Flexing Our Civil Resistance Muscle (with Jamila Raqib)

This is an edited version of that conversation.

By Metta Spencer (interviewer); Jamila Raqib (interviewee) | 2019-01-01 11:00:00

SPENCER: Jamila, tell me about yourself. I hear that when you began working for Gene at age twenty you were skeptical about nonviolence.

RAQIB: Yes, my family came to the U.S.

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