Peter Ackerman attended Colgate University as an undergraduate and earned his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Dr. Ackerman is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, the managing director of Rockport Capital Incorporated, and is currently chair of the board of trustees of Freedom House. He co-authored with Christopher Kruegler the book Strategic Nonviolent Conflict. Dr. Ackerman was also a content advisor on the Emmy-nominated documentary A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict and co-authored with Jack Duvall a book of the same title. In 2002 Dr. Ackerman also helped produce the documentary Bringing Down A Dictator, the sequel to A Force More Powerful, which chronicled the fall of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic by nonviolent means.