Discover how nonviolent civil resistance can empower communities and drive meaningful change.
Our mission is educational. We develop and share knowledge and resources on civil resistance with interested recipients throughout the world.
Explore our resources, gain insights from experts, and join a global network of learners dedicated to understanding and advancing peaceful strategies for social and political change.
Explore our resources, gain insights from experts, and join a global network of learners dedicated to understanding and advancing peaceful strategies for social and political change.
Our team
Meet our team
Bruce Pearson
Program Manager
Bruce Pearson is Program Manager at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), where he supports online learning, fieldwork, fellowships, writing, and publishing on the use of civil resistance by movements to secure rights, freedom, and justice. With ICNC Press, he has coordinated the publication of twenty monographs, special reports, and resources for practitioners—for which fourteen he was volume editor. He is also the series editor for books in the Activist-Author Series. Bruce also manages the moderated and participant-led online courses and supports courses by ICNC partners and teaching fellows.
Ivan Marovic
Executive Director
Ivan Marovic is an educator, software developer and social innovator from Belgrade, Serbia. He was a student organizer and one of the leaders of Otpor ("Resistance"), a youth movement which played an important role in the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic, authoritarian leader of Serbia in 2000. Since then he's advised numerous pro-democracy groups around the world and became one of the leading trainers in the field of strategic nonviolent conflict.
Amber French
Senior Editorial Advisor and Managing Editor of Minds of the Movement
Amber French is ICNC Senior Editorial Advisor, Managing Editor of the Minds of the Movement blog (est. June 2017) and Project Co-Lead of REACT (Research-in-Action), the ICNC partnership with ActionAid Denmark focused on the power of activist writing. For the Minds of the Movement blog, she has commissioned 285+ articles by 130+ activist writers, academics and others around the world. Currently based in Paris, France, she continues to develop thought leadership on civil resistance in French.