Srdja Popovic Defends Non-Violence When Toppling Dictators

Social movements advisor and former activist, Serbian Srdja Popovic speaks with Marco Werman about Syria and his insistence on keeping social movements non-violent.

Conflict & Justice

Srdja Popovic (Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/Flickr)

It’s been nearly a year and a half of violence in Syria.

The death toll is estimated at more than 15,000.

It’s hard to imagine how the conflict there could ever end peacefully.

Srdja Popovic has been closely following events in Syria, as well as the whole narrative of the Arab Spring.