Public leadership to foster peacebuilding in violently divided societies

Khalil, Loua and Hartley, Jean (2022). Public leadership to foster peacebuilding in violently divided societies. Public Management Review (Early access).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2022.2116094

Abstract

This paper examines public leadership for peacebuilding in divided societies emerging from severe violence. It deploys two theories of leadership: social identity and political astuteness, to investigate peacebuilding leadership processes. The paper investigates contradictions in social identity leadership, since peacebuilding leaders reach out beyond their own group to outgroups in hostile contexts. Semi-structured interviews with 32 leaders in Northern Ireland and in Bosnia Herzegovina, reveal that leading for peacebuilding exhibits inverse processes of social identity leadership and that political astuteness is also critical to navigate integration and differentiation within/across groups. Wider implications for public leadership in societies containing division are discussed.

Viewing alternatives

Look up in Google Scholar

Download history

Metrics

Public Attention

Altmetrics from Altmetric

Number of Citations

Citations from Dimensions

Item Actions

Export

About

  • Item ORO ID
  • 85477
  • Item Type
  • Journal Item
  • ISSN
  • 1471-9045
  • Keywords
  • Public leadership; political astuteness; conflict; inter-group leadership; peacebuilding; peace leadership
  • Academic Unit or School
  • Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
    Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
  • Copyright Holders
  • © 2022 Loua Khalil, © 2022 Jean Hartley
  • SWORD Depositor
  • Jisc Publications-Router
  • Depositing User
  • Jisc Publications-Router
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

Recommendations