"My name is Per Herngren, and I live in the Fig Tree Resistance Community, outside Gothenburg, Sweden. I work half time as a nonviolent trainer and half time as a writer.

I have written a few books about civil disobedience and nonviolence.

Path of Resistance is translated and published in the US and Australia. Mostly, I write in Swedish, but some of my English texts are on my web site or my blog.

Recently, my writings, have been on innovative and productive resistance vs. reactive protest resistance.

In my thinking, I am specially inspired by Foucault, Butler, Laclau, Deleuze and Luhmann.

I am active in the plowshares movement disarming weapons with hammers. I have served 15 month of an eight year sentence for disarming a Pershing II nuclear rocket in Florida; and some shorter sentences in Sweden and England.

In our Vine & Fig tree action 2005, and also in the trial 2006, we tried to avoid all negative symbols and messages against war or against nuclear weapons. Instead we focused on proposals, innovations, methods and visions. Instead of using theories on political influence and effect we were inspired by theories on how to write poetry and novels, and how to create art. We also used practical skills from the poets, novel writers and artists in our group.

And I love to dance salsa."