Leaders and Leadership
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Good Leadership
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Louise Diamond talks about the importance of good leadership.
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Herb Kelman explains that problem solving workshops can develop new approaches for transforming conflict, but cannot implement them. Track I leaders need to do that, and they need to educate the public to gain their support.
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Mark Amstutz, a professor at Wheaton College, describes the factors behind South Africa's remarkable transformation focusing in particular on the role of moral leadership.
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Mari Fitzduff talks about the need for strong leaders and the potential to learn from other conflicts.
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Wallace Warfield discusses the importance of getting the right people at the negotiation table.
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Mark Gerzon suggests that a good leader is one who knows how to deal with differences constructively.
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Sometimes the leaders are not the people making the most noise, observes CRS mediator Bob Ensley.
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Renaldo Rivera explains how he identifies leaders in community conflicts when he doesn't know the community.
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Working with Leaders
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Wallace Warfield describes how one identifies the real leaders in a group.
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Issues of Bad Leadership
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Mari Fitzduff talks about how leaders sometimes contribute to destructive social divisions.
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Helen Chauncey points out that leaders can undo a lot of positive work if they don't share the peacebuilders' values. So working at the leadership level, along with other levels, is important in peacebuilding.
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Sometimes you cannot work with some leaders, but you can work with others, observes CRS Mediator Stephen Thom.
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Case Examples
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Wallace Warfield talks about working with street gangs in New York City.
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Mark Amstutz, a professor at Wheaton College, describes the factors behind South Africa's remarkable transformation focusing in particular on the role of moral leadership.
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Nancy Ferrell explains how she persuaded a business community to address a racial problem with Iranian students by convincing the white leaders that the conflict might impact their financial interests.
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Former Community Relations Service Mediator Nancy Ferrell describes how she dealt with potentially violent situations.
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Renaldo Rivera explains how he identifies leaders in community conflicts when he doesn't know the community.
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