Peace Leadership
A Story of Peace Dwelling

Peace Leadership is examined through the practices of being a Guardian, a Curator, A Welcoming Presence, and a Neighbour.

Stan Amaladas (Author)

9781009543781, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 November 2024

74 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.1 cm, 0.26 kg

Peace dwelling is formulated as a reciprocal relationship among four interrelated ways of 'Being': Being a Guardian, Being a Curator, Being a Welcoming Presence, and Being a Neighbour. These ways of 'Being' are connected to a systemic reconstruction of Burns' formulation of the essential task of leadership, which encompasses the interconnectedness among the affairs of the Head (consciousness raising because values exist only where there is consciousness), the Heart (feeling the need to meaningfully define values, because where nothing is felt, nothing matters), the Hands (purposeful action) and the Holy (treating persons like persons as a non-negotiable and sacred practice, while believing that all persons can be lifted into their better selves). Corresponding to the four ways of Being, Peace Leadership is interpreted as the art of learning how to properly integrate the affairs of 4-Hs into our own shared lived existence for the sake of dwelling in peace.

A Personal Story
1. Introduction
2. A fourfold conceptual framework for peace leadership
3. Leadership as an affair of the head: on being a guardian
4. Peace leadership as an affair of the heart: on being a curator
5. Peace leadership as an affair of the hands: on being a welcoming presence
6. Peace leadership as an affair of the holy: on being a neighbour
7. Concluding thoughts
References.

Subject Areas: Management & management techniques [KJM]