Public leadership to foster peacebuilding in violently divided societies
本文通过北爱尔兰和波斯尼亚的32位领导者访谈，研究暴力分裂社会中公共领导力如何促进和平建设，发现和平建设领导力呈现社会认同领导的反向过程，且政治敏锐性至关重要。
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.