1st Edition
Integral Peace Leadership Theory and Practice for Creating Peaceful Change
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Leading our way to peace
Status of peace in the world
Status of leadership in the world
Defining integral peace leadership
Assumptions and intentions
Chapter overviews
Chapter 2: Journey to the integral peace leadership framework
Setting the stage
Connecting peace and community development
Finding my space in peace leadership
Integral peace leadership development
Integral peace leadership
Chapter summary
Chapter 3: The practice of Innerwork
Cultivating sustainable personal peace practices
Knowing ourselves
Prioritizing personal wellness
Respecting self and others
Enacting love
Embracing empathy
Cultivating compassion
Fostering forgiveness
Integral peace leadership and Innerwork
Chapter 4: Building on Knowledge
Understanding contextual realities
Conflict transformation practices
Positive peace actions
Integral peace leadership and Knowledge
Chapter 5: Being in Community
Collaborative peacebuilding
Repairing community harm
Integral peace leadership and Community
Chapter 6: Engaging in Environment
Creating a culture of peace
Complexity and distributed systems
Challenge systems and structures
Fostering equity and justice
Integral peace leadership and Environment
Chapter 7: A path forward with integral peace leadership
Critiques of peace leadership
Six integral peace leadership reminders
An invitation
Index
Biography
Whitney McIntyre Miller, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at Chapman University. She centers her scholarship on peace leadership with a particular focus on international community-based and educational work. Dr. McIntyre Miller is the lead scholar of the integral peace leadership framework. She has experience in community and international development, refugee resettlement, nonviolence, and election monitoring, having traveled to over 60 countries for teaching, research, and leisure. Dr. McIntyre Miller has served as the coconvener of the International Leadership Association’s Peace Leadership Affinity Group and as a Community Development Society board member; is a founding member of the Peace Leadership Collaborative; and sits on several global advisory boards.
“A ‘wow of a read’! McIntyre Miller’s compelling and so-accessible narrative underlines that peace is a movement—a continuous journey of adaptation, inclusion, and shared purpose—a destination difficult to guarantee, but critical in these complex and turbulent times.”
Professor Mike Hardy, CMG OBE, Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University, UK, and Board Chair, International Leadership Association
“Peace leadership is vital in these times when multi-faceted violence afflicts much of our world. McIntyre Miller’s practical and scholarly book highlights the imperative to choose: Do we pursue the path of destruction or the hard but ultimately rewarding work of peace leadership?”
Barbara C. Crosby, University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
