Shaazka Beyerle is a writer and educator in citizen empowerment and civil resistance, and a Senior Advisor with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. She is conducting research on people power to curb corruption - in order to document cases and distill general lessons learned. She is the co-author of two chapters in "Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization and Governance in the Middle East”; one on anti-corruption campaigns and one on the Iranian women’s movement (Palgrave, 2010). She has published in Dar Al Hayat, Daily Star (Lebanon), Truthout.org, Foreign Policy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, International Herald Tribune, and The Independent.