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The Serbian capital is home to the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), an organization run by young Serbs who had cut their teeth in the late 1990s student uprising against Slobodan Milosevic. After ousting him, they embarked on the ambitious project of figuring out how to translate their success to other countries.

To the world's autocrats, they are sworn enemies, but to a young generation of democracy activists from Harare to Rangoon to Minsk to Tehran, the young Serbs are heroes. They have worked with democracy advocates from more than 50 countries. They have advised groups of young people on how to take on some of the worst governments in the world.

In the summer of 2009, Mohamed Adel, a 20-year-old blogger and activist, went to Belgrade, where he took a week-long course in the strategies of nonviolent revolution. He learned how to organize people -- not on a computer, but in the streets. And most importantly, he learned how to train others. He went back to Egypt and began to teach.


http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_u
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