Peter Ackerman
Dr. Peter Ackerman is the founding Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, DC, and one of the world’s leading authorities on nonviolent conflict. He holds a PhD from The Fletcher School, Tufts University, where he presently is the Chairman of the Board. He is co-author of two seminal books on nonviolent resistance: A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict and Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century. Dr. Ackerman was the Series Editor and Principal Content Advisor for the two-part Emmy-nominated PBS-TV series: A Force More Powerful and the Executive Producer of the PBS-TV documentary, Bringing Down a Dictator, on the fall of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, which received a 2003 Peabody Award. Dr. Ackerman has spoken often in public, on television and radio, and has published numerous op-eds and articles. He is Chairman of the Board of Freedom House, a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the Executive Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
