Srdja Popovic, executive director of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS) will receive the Brown Democracy Medal for his work in nonviolent activism over the past twenty years. CANVAS operates a network of international trainers and consultants with experience in successful democratic movements and worked with pro-democracy activists from more than fifty countries. 

Popovic will present a lecture on the book Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism, a book written with Penn State’s Sophia McClennen as part of winning the Brown Democracy Medal.

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