The Leadership Challenge of Positive Peace for Defense Forces

• In Event: Strange Bedfellows: Peace Leadership and Defense/Legal Peacekeeping

Short Description

The presenter will address the contentious relationship between peace activists and the military, arguing that historical reasons for this division are redundant for today’s security challenges. The complexity of conflicts requires a new mandate as well as an appropriate leadership style for national defense forces to fulfill the international mandate of lasting peace.

Participant

• Erich P Schellhammer, Civilian Peace Service of Canada