It has been said that leadership is a prospect
mechanism for peacebuilding and holding peace since it comprises and integrates
all actors and factors to work together to achieve one shared goal. However,
how far it is applicable is under questioning. It might be true that leadership
helps to construct a concrete society through positive structural change. In
postconflict society, in particular, the system opens for fair treatment and
encourages involvement from all relevant parties to form a society they want to
see. In hostile situation or during the fighting, in contrast, can leadership
be used? Can leadership help to build negative peace?
At the height of violent
conflict, laws or justice are silent and even processes of peacebuilding become
useless. No one will talk about rule of law or accountability. The only talk
that happens is who wins and how to win the fighting. During wartime, human
rights, freedom, development and justice were left behind because the fighting
to win dominated every citizen’s mind. People, in fact, are fighting for peace
and justice but most often they do not use peaceful and just mean to fight for.
They rather use forces. From these grounds, it seems that leadership is quite
difficult to stay feasible in this particular situation. Keep in mind that
political violence can be best managed at a community level by building bonds
between different identity groups and that is the time and place where leadership
has role to play. When the fighting is at its height and becomes nationwide leadership
might not be possible.
So far, more and more
states than ever before are dreaming to build their civilized countries through
leadership building. On the ground all countries and
territories, illustrated by international organizations, leadership lesson is
being progressively taught and implemented to sustain the kind of growth that
improves the quality of life for everyone at every locale including even in a
very small far away Cambodian society. However, at the same time the chance of succeeding is
glory the pre-conditions that make leadership process possible is also
considerably high. To make leadership worthwhile working, one has to overcome some
obstacles following.
In fact, it is generally
applauded that leadership is one the best mechanism to promote human rights and
peace. it will help improving variety of states’ capacity such as strengthening
rule of law, accountability, effectiveness and efficiency and improving access
to justice and public administration and developing a greater competency to deliver
basic services to those most in need. However, there are some pre-conditions need
to be overcome before leadership can be fully implemented.
- >> Improving education – Only when quality of life is
empowered, should people think of education or knowledge. Education is, in
fact, paramount but it would come secondly because how would people are able to
insightfully and responsibly think when they in deep hungriness. However, in
the long run appropriate education prevails because it cultivates the intellectual
understanding which, after all, leads to an experiential one. Once people
understood issues such as leadership at the experiential level, they will stick
to it and become a big fan of leadership. Hence, a proper education must be set
up to every citizen and importantly education about human rights or leadership
should not only be transferred to authority but in a bottom up approach.
- >> Structural change of culture, tradition, perception toward
issues and tradition of working should also be promoted. When culture or
perceptions of local people is not so open, they might not see any necessity of
leadership, for example. More, in some cultures people is simply set into a
passive performance. They might see participation in politics belongs to
politicians, not the people. Therefore, a gradual change of conception must be
made so that people become more proactive and participate in all country’s
affairs.