This seminar brings up the need to improve liberation struggles through collaborations between experienced activists and researchers within the academia. One way this is happening already is through “resistance studies”, an emerging field of relevance for liberation that is since the 1980s growing within universities. Another way, linked to this, is the increasing networking among activists through workshops and “Forums” in which movements learn from each other, where an older generation of activists share their experiences with a younger one, and across different sites of struggles in the world. Dr. Stellan Vinthagen, who is an activist scholar from Sweden, working with the Resistance Studies Initiative, is one that’s organizing some of this and is looking for more collaborators from within liberation struggles. Dr. Stellan Vinthagen is Professor of Sociology, and the Inaugural Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he directs the Resistance Studies Initiative. He is Editor of the Journal of Resistance Studies, and Co-Leader of the Resistance Studies Group at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has since 1980 been an educator, organizer and activist, participating in numerous nonviolent civil disobedience actions, for which he has served a total of more than one year in prison. One of his books is A Theory of Nonviolent Action – How Civil Resistance Works (2015).