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Leadership for Peace
The Leadership for Peace Member Community seeks to attract researchers, educators, practitioners, and others who care about peace – in the mind and body, community, and in the world. Our aim is to draw thinkers and doers to focus on peace, peace-building, and developing, explaining, and educating for a culture of peace. This is a forum where the voices of peace can meet to nurture each other’s needs and collaborate on common interests, and a place to support efforts towards a more peaceful world.
Our hope is to increase the conditions for justice, tolerance, acceptance, hope and understanding anywhere and everywhere and for positive change in individuals, groups, organizations, and governments that lead to freedom from oppression, conflict and war, and aggression, through dialogue, action plans, research, practice, teaching and learning.
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Member Community Leaders
ILA Member Community leaders serve as ILA’s trusted experts in the field of leadership
Stephen Moles
Director, Leadership and Talent Development, U.S. Institute of Peace
Aleen Bayard
Chair-Elect
Lazarina Topuzova
Past-Chair
Associate Professor, Robert Morris University
Contact Community Leaders at leadershippeace@ilaglobalnetwork.org
Executive Leadership Team
Our activities and programs are organized by this dedicated team of member volunteers. If you would like to deepen your engagement, please use the email above to contact us about volunteer opportunities.
Andrew Campbell, Director, International Peace and Leadership Institute
Rosemary Muriungi, Professor, Gonzaga University
Erich Schellhammer, Retired
Priorities and Projects
Promote Peace Leadership
Promoting an understanding of peace leadership separate and distinctive from peace and conflict studies
Share Knowledge
Sharing knowledge on practices, opportunities, and experiences for sustainable peace within and outside the ILA
Refining Peace Models
Identifying and testing models, theories, and perspectives about peace leadership towards developing effective approaches to ….
Develop Peace Leaders
Developing individual and group capacities, leaders and activists, negotiators and communicators, to learn and teach how to develop relationships of trust and reciprocity that can be spread around the world
Embrace Peace
Engaging with and learning from others whose ways of being are peace-intentional and peace-proactive
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Presenter & Attendee Opportunities
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Engage in Vibrant Discussions
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Volunteer
Our activities and programs are organized by our dedicated team of member volunteers. If you would like to deepen your engagement, please email us about volunteer opportunities at leadershippeace@ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Resources
The ILA offers a wide variety of leadership resources to help you elevate your leadership research and practice.
Call for Chapter Proposals
Submit your 500-word abstract by 15 June for Embodied Somatic Leadership for Peacebuilding and Protest: Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice, the upcoming book in ILA’s new Transformative Women Leaders book series from Emerald Publishing.
The War in Ukraine & Leadership as an Essentially Contested Concept
In order to stop the war in Ukraine, we have to understand why different people have radically diverse understandings of what’s happening. In this blog, ILA Fellow Keith Grint examines how the war is not just about land or people or history, it is about our understandings of leadership.
Nurturing Peace From the Ashes of Violence
Hyppolite Ntigurirwa shares his story of surviving the Rwandan genocide and turning his mind from vengeance to peace and reconciliation. ILA Board Chair Mike Hardy joins in to discuss his own work pointing leaders to peace and his friendship with Ntigurirwa.
Downloadable Book Chapter
- They Were All Leaders: The IWW & Songs for Revolution from Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change