Cairo, Egypt
June 6-7, 2011

• Presentation by Maciej Bartkowski about civil resistance and democratic transition at a conference titled "The Nonviolent Revolution in Egypt: Lessons Learned." For more information on the conference see the Washington Post blog report by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, a participant who  described ICNC and Bartkowski’s contribution in the following way:

A bright spot in the concluding sessions and one that seemed to provoke great interest among the Egyptians, was a presentation by Maciej Bartkowski of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Bartkowski has researched the role of nonviolent revolutions and the transition to democracy, and had several very concrete observations and suggestions for the Egyptians. Chief among these is that nonviolent civil resistance movements often produce democratic transitions when the “lessons learned” are to keep up public mobilization and build up new civil institutions that can keep reform going. Of special interest to the symposium was the history of Solidarity in Poland, and how the Polish did small constitutional reforms for more than decade.”

• See another blog post about the conference on Waging Nonviolence