An excellent view of the study of leadership and a just world order, the book provides a trans-disciplinary approach to issues of equity, inclusion, and trust. The building of sustainable peace is basic to the text as each chapter examines the themes of reconciliation, community building, international law, and social justice. This book is important and I give it my highest recommendation. -- Dr. June Schmieder-Ramirez, Chair, PhD in Global Leadership and Change, Chair of Leadership Studies, Pepperdine University Social oppression, civil war, and state genocide are often a direct product of leadership failures, but recovery from them can be facilitated by other leaders and even followers who appreciate and exercise the powers of truth telling, community reconciliation, and national rebuilding. H. Eric Schockman, Vanessa Hernandez, and Aldo Boitano have gathered a host of penetrating and informative accounts of just that in Peace, Reconciliation, and Social Justice in the 21st Century, which serves as both an inspiration and a roadmap for those whose wish to apply their own leadership to recovering and coming back from human calamities. -- Michael Useem, Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Leadership Dispatches: Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster. At a time when the global order founded by liberal democracies is in retreat, beset by authoritarian rivals on one side and failing states on the other, academia might be ready for the tonic of a "peace and conflict studies" approach to the study of leadership - leading to an understanding of the moral, spiritual, and political roles of leaders in healing a divided society. This book lays the groundwork. -- Michael Woo, Dean, College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona In this ambitious interdisciplinary volume, the authors seek to understand the concept of peace and reconciliation through leadership and followership theories and practice from the current generation's perspective in the midst of today's turbulent and unsettling times. The immediate need for this global analysis of peace and reconciliation from a trans-disciplinary lens is crucial. The authors of this volume provide a solution through the concept of decolonization by first giving a voice to those most impacted by conflict and then by listening to those voices in order to bring about social justice. -- Raida Gatten, Associate VP of Academic Affairs, Woodbury University In all my years as a public servant, I have always looked for guideposts to help me better understand a fractured world. This outstanding interdisciplinary volume provides an excellent roadmap to piece together the mosaic of peace, reconciliation, and social justice not just from a leader's perspective, but from the voices and actions of followers. This book forms an essential praxis through the lens of gender, diversity, spirituality, inclusiveness to better deal with global restoration of a more beloved community. -- Ambassador Eric M. Bost (Ret), Former US Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa; Deputy Director of the Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture and Development at Texas A&M University
Biografía del autor
H. Eric Schockman is an Associate Professor and Incoming Chair of the Social Sciences Department and Director of the Center for Leadership at Woodbury University. He also teaches in the MPA program at CSU Northridge, and the PhD program in Global Leadership and Change at Pepperdine University. Vanessa Hernandez is an international criminal lawyer with a special interest and expertise in international criminal law, human rights law, and international humanitarian law. Vanessa is currently working at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and as a Senior Editorial Reviewer at the Groningen Journal of International Law. Aldo Boitano received a Bachelor and Master's in Engineering in December 1992 (Universidad de Chile), an MBA in December 2006 (UNC-Charlotte Belk School of Business), and is currently undertaking a doctoral program in Organizational Leadership at Pepperdine University. Aldo previously served as a University Professor at Wharton and UNCC.