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Peter Ackerman (born November 6, 1946) is a businessman, the founder and former chairman of Americans Elect, and is founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Ackerman is currently the managing director of Rockport Capital, Inc. In 1983 Ackerman co-founded the Albert Einstein Institute, which according to Bloomberg News, "advises pro-democracy activists on how to topple dictators via protests and mock elections". In 1989 Ackerman consulted with student protestors from China following the Tiananmen Square incident According to Bloomberg, "In 2005, he co-wrote a study showing that non-violent action had been instrumental in 50 of 67 transitions to democracy since 1972, including in Chile, the Philippines and Poland. He has funded workshops for dissidents from Central Asia, Iran, Iraq and North Korea … Ackerman also funded the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, which was started in 2003 by student leaders who’d helped bring down Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic three years earlier. Some members of Egypt’s April 6 movement, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak, took civil resistance training from Canvas organizers in Belgrade." In 2005 Ackerman became a director of the Institute for Strategic Studies' IISS-US office. Ackerman was also a founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
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