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Forget Gene Sharp, John Carlarne Is The New Color Revolution Chief

by Andrew Korybko, via The Duran

Long thought of as being the ‘godfather’ of Color Revolutions, elderly Gene Sharp is stepping aside in favor of a much younger spiritual successor, John Carlarne.
Color Revolutions are the epitome of post-modern warfare, and they’ve been successfully applied to devastating effect everywhere from Serbia to Syria. Whether as stand-alone regime change operations such as the one in 2003 Georgia or the catalyst to a Hybrid War like in 2011 Libya, Color Revolutions have arguably emerged as one of the US’ preferred strategies of choice in destabilizing targeted states.
The architect behind this new method of warfare is Gene Sharp, an expert in “non-violent resistance” strategies and the founder of the “Albert Einstein Institution”. He’s published such works as “From Dictatorship To Democracy” and “There Are Realistic Alternatives”, both of which have been instrumental in honing Color Revolution organizational strategies and applied tactics. Largely credited with sparking the “Arab Spring” theater-wide Color Revolutions, Sharp is a ‘god among men’ when it comes to asymmetrical warfare methods, but his elderly age means that someone else must pick up the torch and continue his work once he inevitably passes away.

A New Leader Rises

Enter John Carlarne, an up-and-coming Color Revolution strategist from The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies. His publicly available CV indicates that he has a wealth of experience that’s particularly relevant for this field. From serving around the world as a Commissioned Officer in the British Army from 1990-1995 to being the Vice-President of the Peace Brigades International (PBI) from 1997 to the present, Carlarne has been able to combine his military training with broad NGO activity in spearheading the new tactic of “protective accompaniment”.
PBI describes this concept as “send[ing] teams of volunteers backed up by an international support network to accompany human rights defenders and communities in areas of conflict”, which basically boils down to using Western “volunteers” as literal human shields in protecting “democracy” and “human rights” (Color Revolution) activists during their provocations. Undoubtedly, Carlarne’s military experience helped to optimize this strategy while his leadership role as the organization’s Vice-President ensured that it would be rolled out, tested, and perfected in all of the countries where the group is active.
PBI’s activity in identity-diverse countries such as Kenya and Nepal dovetails nicely with Carlarne’s educational interest in Anthropology, in which he received both a master’s degree (1996) and a Ph.D. (2008). During his two-year time as the Associate Director of the University of South Carolina’s Rule of Law Collaborative from 2009-2011, some of his self-declared responsibilities included “liaising with government, academic, practitioner and policy maker communities – both in the US and in Europe” and “advising government officials on working with nongovernmental organizations in post-conflict settings”, both of which clearly gave him an impressive list of professional contacts that he would later leverage.

Crafting The Color Revolution

Right after serving at the Rule of Law Collaborative, Carlarne became the Peace Studies Coordinator at The Ohio State University in 2011, a position that he retains to this day alongside his Vice-Presidential one with the PBI. The Mershon Center describes a research project that Carlarne is leading called “Training To Talk Peace: Experimental Analysis Of Non-Violent Communication Workshops”, which utilizes local diaspora communities to “act as a proxy for populations in their countries of origin” in assessing the effect that an extensive six-week “non-violent communication curriculum” has on the participants’ “identity structure, interpersonal reactivity, and views on the use of coercive or punitive methods in a divisive political dispute.”
The purpose of the experiment is to gauge the effectiveness of Color Revolution information campaigns in recruiting regime change cells inside of the targeted country and in magnifying the sense of identity-separateness that varied demographics feel towards the said diverse state. To put it in a simpler way, Carlarne tests the applicability of fomenting identity conflict all across the world, likely in accordance with “The Law Of Hybrid War” which states that “the grand objective behind every Hybrid War is to disrupt multipolar transnational connective projects through externally provoked identity conflicts (ethnic, religious, regional, political, etc.) within a targeted transit state.”
His anthropological expertise is then harnessed in judging whether the experiment’s results indicate that a given strategy should move forward, and if such a determination is made, then the PBI begins in-field testing against the target. Although the PBI’s front page says that it only has “current field projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico and Nepal”, its section about Country Groups notes that “many countries do not have an official PBI Country Group but have small networks of individuals that may be able to help.” To elaborate, one of the key functions of a Country Group “is developing and activating support networks that provide a vital lifeline if the human rights defenders PBI accompanies are threatened”, which “consists of high-level contacts such as diplomats, members of government, and officials, and well-known personalities.”
If the Country Group’s responsibilities make it sound an awful lot like an intelligence agency, it’s because it essentially is, and it’s reasonable to conclude that the PBI might actually be a CIA front organization. Carlarne’s extensive contacts “with government, academic, practitioner and policy maker communities – both in the US and in Europe” and the government officials that he has formerly advised enable him to provide a wide range of relevant policy influencers and decision makers with the results of his field data, thus establishing a valuable Color Revolution feedback mechanism that seamlessly integrates theoreticians, practitioners, and policy makers. Carlarne’s multi-layered regime change platform surpasses the precedent that was set by Gene Sharp and demonstrates how academia, private sector “volunteers”, and government agencies can all be fused together in an effective operational mix.

Training The Next Generation

Carlarne’s activities are also very forward-looking, not just in the sense of fomenting Color Revolutions and Hybrid Wars in targeted states, but in training a new generation of strategists to join his PBI organization and/or the American Intelligence Community. He presently teaches a class at The Ohio State University called “Applied Nonviolence”, where he writes that students “will select candidate countries for nonviolent transition” and “then apply the principles, concepts and practices of nonviolence within a notional setting in order to explore the strengths and limitations of nonviolence as a method for effecting long‐term change within specific regimes.”
This program amounts to a series of targeted simulations in which Carlarne uses students as unwitting research assistants for his work while simultaneously seeking to indoctrinate future recruits with his Color Revolution ideology. He’s currently building the “Peace Education And Training Repository” (PETR), “an online data portal designed to document peace education training curricula and materials from around the world” and which “combines information about global research, education, and peace-building programs that affect community, national and international peace and security.”
The end vision is that “the repository will form the core resource for lifelong peace leadership education”, with one of the key objectives being to “attract participation from practitioners, researchers and policy makers alike”. In other words, Carlarne is constructing a Color Revolution factory that aims to continually produce strategists, activists, and policy facilitators in order to dish out a never-ending stream of “democratic” and “human rights” destabilization anywhere in the world. Needless to say, PETR is on track to become the new-and-improved version of the “Albert Einstein Institute”, and John Carlarne is already a lot more successful than Gene Sharp ever was in directly cultivating Color Revolution networks, fielding experimental techniques in practice, and coordinating his activities with the military-intelligence community.


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kingfelix
kingfelix
May 9, 2016 3:40 PM

Hopefully, one day, these texts of Sharp’s will be used by American patriots to overthrow the USG.

Eurasia News Online
Eurasia News Online
May 5, 2016 3:02 PM

Reblogged this on Eurasia News Online.

Seamus Padraig
Seamus Padraig
May 4, 2016 8:56 PM

Using words like ‘peace’ and ‘non-violence’ to describe color-revs is so Orwellian!

stuartbramhall
stuartbramhall
May 4, 2016 8:39 PM

Hopefully it won’t take this asshole two decades to be exposed as in Sharp’s case.

John
John
May 3, 2016 11:29 PM

Of course, Gandhi and Martin Luther King already formulated these practices.
Even the US has an earlier variant – the pots and pans brigades – which were used to overthrow Allende in Chile.
Not sure about Lumumba in the Congo – a fine mess! – though the US was behind his illegal capture and murder.
Don’t the US power elite ever wonder how they would like someone doing this to them?
For example, could not Ferguson have been turned against them in a revolutionary manner?
But then, others would need to match the US power elite in arrogance and ruthlessness – no easy matter!

leruscino
leruscino
May 4, 2016 6:37 AM
Reply to  John

Colour Revolutions are a very difficult thing to criminalise or put down, as control of the mass media is the most critical tool required to achieve success in any revolution since the dawn of time.
Putin is the grand master at defeating Colour Revolutions – when the 5th column are gifted or engineered an ‘event’ such as the Nemtsov murder; his supporters with true patriot flags out numbered the whores who had been bought & paid €30/Day to destroy their country by US & UK agents. Be in no doubt that the US instigated the murder of Nemtsov to see if they could light a fire but they killed the wrong man.
Recently in Macedonia only the true patriotic people in numbers on the street stopped the minority 5th column whores from achieving anarchy & a Kiev style coup.
Media like Off-Guardian are essential in this fight for morality until there is adequate punishment for MSM journalists who murder by proxy such as Luke Harding & Shaun Walker as example – 2 of a great many!

shatnersrug
shatnersrug
May 5, 2016 10:21 AM
Reply to  John

I think that’s the reason for running a “Liberal” secular dictatorship isn’t it? In the west no one can be bothered – we’re told we’re special and different and we can fill out lives with drink sex and work. The colour revolutions are set up in countries that have an authoritarian rule – even if it’s leftish it’s not hard to propagate division whereas in the uk and USA the thought goes like this – shall we revolt?
” Err yeah man, maybe next Tuesday – I’ve gotten work all weekend than I wanna go to the gym, then in meeting up with some buddies. Hmmm maybe Thursday”
If the US removed that veneer of liberalism then it could easily have a problem, they don’t give it to us because they like us – they give it to us to keep us occupied and dumb.

John
John
May 5, 2016 3:26 PM
Reply to  shatnersrug

What you say about Liberalism is interesting – and highly contemporary.
On a recent TV programme, I saw leading officials in Hungary complaining about the Liberalism of the EU.
They are now insisting on greater sovereignty for Hungary, a sentiment being echoed by other EU countries.
Maybe with the election of a President Trump in the USA, we may also witness a backlash against Liberalism there too?
Perhaps the next year or so will see us all living in “interesting” times?

shatnersrug
shatnersrug
May 5, 2016 8:24 PM
Reply to  John

Hungary will do what it’s told whilst appearing to rattle it’s Sabres to keeps its aging conservative Christian base happy. They know as well as anyone they’ll face a Ukraine type coup if they step out of line

joekano76
joekano76
May 3, 2016 11:16 PM

Reblogged this on TheFlippinTruth.