"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.

During 2010-2012, I have been particularly active with training democracy activists in the Middle East around the Arab Spring. In autumn 2010, I trained democracy activists from Iran. In the spring of 2011 I gave civil disobedience training in southern Kurdistan and northern Iraq. In the autumn of 2011 I gave nonviolent training to democracy activists at the Tigris River at the border Kurdistan, Turkey and Syria. The participants came from Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

I have given civil disobedience trainings in Chile, Guatemala, Middle East and Europe. And in Sweden I have trained activists coming from Burma, Colombia and Lithuania. I have also trained nonviolent accompaniments for Palestine and Israel, as well as peace observers for Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala.

I have written nine books about civil disobedience and nonviolence, translated and published into four languages. Latest book is published in Iraq.

Path of Resistance is translated and published in the U.S., England and Australia. Mostly, I write in Swedish, 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, Luhmann and Gandhi.

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 missile in Florida; and I have served 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, oppression 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, and used, practical skills from poets, novel writers and artists.

And I love to dance salsa."