Srdja Popovic

Srdja Popovic is a native of Belgrade. "Popovic was raised in a political environment with both parents working in the media. His father was a prominent television reporter and his mother a popular news anchor on state television. A founding member of Otpor, Popovic’s main responsibility was human resources and training Otpor activists in nonviolent action. In a sarcastic reference to Yugoslavia’s communist past, Popovic was sometimes called Otpor’s ideological commissar, an appropriate label as he studied and translated the literature of nonviolent strategy, including books by the American scholar Gene Sharp. Popovic worked as a behind the scenes strategist, drafting speeches and writing training manuals. He was elected to the Parliament of the Serb Republic in late 2000 where he also served as environmental affairs advisor to the Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic until Djindjic’s assassination in March 2003. He left the Parliament in late 2003 and co-founded the Center for Applied Non-Violent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS), a group that supports nonviolent democratic movements through the transfer of knowledge on strategies and tactics of nonviolent struggle."

His wife is Marija Stanisavljevic.

Affiliations

 * President, Ecotopia Fund
 * Associate, International Commmunications Partners
 * (#1) of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list
 * Founder, Everyday Rebellion
 * Advisory Board, Waging Nonviolence

Criticism

 * Michael Barker, "Mother Jones And The Defence Of Liberal Elites", Swans Commentary, April 19, 2010.
 * Carl Gibson and Steve Horn, "How Defending Private Intelligence Firm Collaborators Screws Grassroots Activists", Occupy, December 5, 2013.

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Humanity in Action