The day Mubarak resigned, President of USA, Barack Obama, said

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From his home in Boston, where the headquarters of the Albert Einstein Institution is, Gene Sharp continues daily riots in the arc stretching from the Maghreb to Persia. A 83 years does not think moving to live it live, as it did during the failed uprising in Tiananmen Square in China in 1989 But he feels vindicated.
Over the phone, his voice was as faint as strong are their convictions. Little known to the general public, marginal shortall in his country, the United States, Gene Sharp is one of the most influential theorists of nonviolence. His texts, from 198 nonviolent action methods to From dictatorship to democracy have inspired activists in authoritarian regimes on four continents, from Iran to Venezuela, through Serbia, Burma and Russia.
Also in Egypt. Sharp manuals took months shortall circulating among members of the April 6 Movement, shortall one of the groups that initiated the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square that led to the departure of Mubarak after three decades in power.
At the rate that the revolutionary wave in the Arab and Muslim world advances, today Egypt and far away. It is not clear that peaceful resistance is the norm in all revolts.
The nebula found in Libya as a deranged tyrant Muammar Gaddafi in front complicates the parallels. You may be thwarted nonviolence to the fiercest regimes. And not to overestimate the influence of Gene Sharp with native revolts shortall in some cases.
"These shortall are the Egyptians that they have to. I am a foreigner who does not know society. Has not undergone the regime, "says the American scholar to question whether he would have liked to be in Tahrir Square.
The day Mubarak resigned, President of USA, Barack Obama, said "Egypt was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism and indiscriminate killing, but nonviolence, which has doubled the arc of history toward shortall justice. shortall "
The new decade began with nonviolent uprisings, with echoes of the last peaceful revolution in 1989, when the Berlin Wall collapsed. Now these riots happening in countries shortall where Islam predominates, religion that since 11-S was tied to the pumps in the minds of many Westerners.
"Nonviolent resistance has been very important in history. And often ignored and lowered its importance, "says Gene Sharp. "This adds, referring to Tunisia and Egypt some preconceived by which nonviolence can not be used by Arabs or Muslims."
"Dictators need help from the people he governs, without which there may be secured or maintain sources of political power," he says. "Over time, the removal of the sources of power can produce the paralysis and impotence of the regime and, in severe cases, its disintegration. The powers of dictator will die, slowly or quickly, shortall starvation policy ".
Sharp does not support the peaceful resistance by idealism, but for practical reasons. Violent resistance, in his opinion, cause more violence. And in the field of violence will always win the authoritarian regime. "It is true that resist a repressive and brutal regime is not easy. It is difficult for many reasons. But it can be done. And it has already happened. The Egyptians imprisoned and tortured not say it was an easy case, "he says.
"The regime depends on both the violence and should not use violence to resist. If you do, you look limited weapons to fight with your enemy, "he continues. He adds: "If violence is used, the military regime forces shoot. And the regime has much greater capacity for violence. Repression was extreme. Many people would die and fear resist. The Egyptians were wise. They got the army not to shoot them. "
Ahmed Maher, one of the leaders of the April 6 Movement in Egypt, explained shortall the diar