This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests.
Srdja Popovic is the Executive Director of the Center for Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) and a founding member of the Resistance movement credited with the nonviolent overthrow of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000.
People Power: The Real Force behind the "Bad Year for the Bad Guys"
It has been a bad year for bad guys. The events and political changes that marked 2011 were previously thought to be impossible. Yet, before July 1, 2011, Egyptian President Husni Mubarak and Tunisian President Zine el-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali were out of power and prosecuted, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qadhafi and Yemeni President ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Salih were on their knees, Syrian President Bashar al-Asad was seriously challenged, and, unrelated but equally significant: Usama bin Ladin dead and Ratko Mladic in jail.
