HARDY MERRIMAN has worked in the field of civil resistance for 18 years and is President & CEO of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, { the ICNC } He has presented at workshops for human rights activists and grassroots organizers from around the world.

His primary interest is in how ordinary people organize themselves, strategize, and mobilize to overcome adverse conditions, hold powerholders accountable, and win rights, freedom, and justice.