Capitalising On Nonviolence http://www.swans.com/library/art17/barker81.html

Berel Rodal is the founding vice chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) -- a center that was formed in 2006, ostensibly "as a catalyst to stimulate interest in nonviolent conflict..." Like many peace reformers, members of the ICNC's cadre of intellectuals are happy to work with a wide variety of institutions, organizations, and groups. This includes peace groups, resistance movements, and -- strangely -- war academies and intelligence agencies. While their engagement with the latter groups may seem contradictory, teaching peace to leading members of the military-industrial complex is critical to peace advocacy efforts at the ICNC.

This is because they aim to change the views of people they disagree with, not just confirm the ideas of those who are already close to their views. Therefore, in this respect, it is fitting that at the peak of his former career Berel Rodal served as the director general of the policy secretariat for Canada's Department of National Defence and continues to maintain close connections to leading hawks in the US foreign policymaking circles, like, for example, long-time cold warrior Richard Perle (see later). This should not be taken as a demonstration of a massive conspiracy, but is simply evidence that imperial elites are interested in co-opting critical voices.