Date: April 24, 2013
Venue: Pawa 254 Hub
Time: 5-7:30 pm
Vukasin Petrovic is director of programs for sub-Saharan Africa, the largest and most wide-ranging regional portfolio at Freedom House, an independent watchdog organisation “dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.” He oversees cutting-edge programs that focus on voter and civic mobilization, accountability and good governance, support to human rights defenders, and the professionalisation of civil society.
Mr. Petrovic was a prominent student leader in Belgrade, Serbia, during the 1990s. He was a founding member of Otpor! (English: Resistance!), a civic youth movement in Serbia employing nonviolent struggle against the regime of Slobodan Milošević. Otpor! successfully overthrew the dictator in 2000. These efforts were profiled in “How to Start a Revolution”, an independent film that documents nonviolent resistance movements and Dr. Gene Sharp.
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