Hardy Merriman is a Senior Advisor to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC). He led ICNC as President & CEO from January 2015 until June 2021.
Mr. Merriman has worked in the field of civil resistance for over 18 years, presenting at workshops for activists and organizers around the world; developing resources for practitioners and scholars; and speaking widely about civil resistance movements with academics, journalists, and members of international organizations. His writings have been translated into numerous languages. From 2016-2018 he was also an adjunct lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University).
He recently co-authored the book Glossary of Civil Resistance: A Resource for Study and Translation of Key Terms (2021). In 2019 he co-authored the groundbreaking ICNC Special Report Preventing Mass Atrocities: From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance.
He has also contributed to the books Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback? (2015), Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East (2010), and Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential (2005) and co-authored two literature reviews on civil resistance. He has also written about the role of nonviolent action in countering terrorism and co-authored A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle, a training curriculum for activists.
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