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L'idée libertaire ? Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare. At 84, American political scientist Gene Sharp has seen his lifelong work on nonviolent resistance echo around the world.

Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare

Political scientist Gene Sharp has been called the father of nonviolent struggleSharp wrote a manual on how to overthrow dictatorships, "From Dictatorship to Democracy"Sharp says no regime can survive without the support of its peopleArab Spring put a new spotlight on Sharp's work London (CNN) -- It's a dark January evening, and in an anonymous townhouse near Paddington station, a man is talking about how to stage a revolution. A young Iranian asks a question: "The youth in Iran are very disillusioned by the brutality of the violence used against them ... It has stopped all the street protest," she says.

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