Practice Opportunities in Peace Leadership Education

Abstract

The complexities in leadership challenges have evolved as have human conceptions of leadership. Advancing from a deepened understanding of human systems, leadership work pushes beyond a leader-centric model and to a new horizon that disrupts the leader–follower-dyad to focus on practice. A practice orientation—fully adopted by educators—can impact leadership work on peace, a pervasive, ongoing human challenge. Educators may lean on pedagogy from the scholarship of teaching and learning to pull from established practices for learning. Peace Leadership and Leadership-As-Practice (L-A-P) direct leadership educators toward practice work, offering practice as an approach to leadership work in the classroom.