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Leading for Peace: Transformational Leadership and Human Security in Financial Institutions
No full textIn today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, organizational conflict presents significant challenges, especially when senior leadership struggles to implement resolution strategies that support institutional cohesion and well-being. This study explores how transformational leadership can strengthen interpersonal trust, cultural understanding, and adaptive responses to change elements that are central to human security within workplace communities. While many studies examine leadership competencies in conflict resolution, there is limited research on how transformational leaders in the banking sector navigate interpersonal conflict, manage organizational culture, and address change, particularly in small-island developing states such as the Bahamas. To address this gap, the researcher employed the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to examine the lived experiences of ten individuals occupying leadership roles in financial institutions. These participants completed an online survey and voluntarily contributed to the research, offering in-depth perspectives on conflict and change within their organizations. The study highlights five key themes demonstrating how transformational leaders handle conflict, maintain cultural integrity, and lead organizational change with empathy, strategic thinking, and resilience. The findings offer important contributions to the broader discussion of peace and conflict studies by reframing the organizational environment as a micro-community, where ethical leadership and trust-building practices play a significant role in promoting positive peace. This peace is not merely the absence of conflict but is reflected in the presence of just, collaborative, and nonviolent relationships. In contexts where financial institutions are central to national development and economic stability, leadership that supports inclusive and culturally aware conflict resolution enhances both local and global forms of human security. As financial institutions strive to remain competitive and relevant in changing economies, transformational leadership emerges as a key tool for building resilient professional environments that foster peace, dignity, and human flourishing. This study contributes both practical and theoretical insights into the field of conflict resolution and leadership
Collective action for justice: Local-global synergies in femicide prevention and human security in Kenya
No full textCollective Action for Justice: Local-Global Synergies in Femicide Prevention and Human Security in Kenya
This article aims to examine the role of collective action in preventing femicide and strengthening human security in Kenya by integrating local innovations with global normative frameworks. Despite growing international consensus on gender-based violence as a human rights violation, femicide persists across Kenya, often under-addressed by state responses and inadequately aligned with grassroots realities. Local women’s groups, urban activist circles, and transnational advocacy networks are increasingly forming coalitions to advance both prevention and justice in culturally responsive and globally informed ways. The article’s core assumption is that the collective action rooted in local experience and global solidarity can produce effective, justice-oriented security strategies. These coalitions do more than fill institutional gaps, they challenge structural violence by embedding social justice in community, based governance and everyday safety practices.
The theoretical framework is guided by the feminist global governance theory and human security theory. The article argues that femicide prevention must be reframed as a social justice imperative that transcends policy technocracy. Community actors become co-creators of security, not passive recipients of protection. This reframing highlights the transformative potential of local efforts aligned with transnational norms, underscoring justice as a foundational principle of sustainable peace.
Utilizing a qualitative design approach, the research combines ethnographic fieldwork in Nairobi’s informal settlements and rural communities to document locally developed prevention strategies; semi-structured interviews with activists, NGO representatives, and international policy actors; and document analysis of memoranda, campaigns, and evaluation reports to trace transnational knowledge exchange. Thematic coding and process tracing will identify mechanisms through which collective action fosters justice and security simultaneously further explaining how multi-scalar collaboration operationalizes social justice in response to femicide.
The findings aim to contribute original insights for peacebuilding scholarship and practical models for policymakers, civil society, and global institutions committed to nonviolent social transformation.
Key Words: Collective action, femicide, gender-based violence, human security, local-global synergies, social justice, transnational advocacy, prevention models, knowledge exchange, sustainable peace
Peace from Within: Kalasha Conflict Resolution Practices and the Foundations of Human Security
No full textDrawing on ethnographic research with the Indigenous Kalasha community of northern Pakistan, this study offers compelling insights into how locally embedded traditions prevent violent conflict. Safety from violent conflict is a key indicator of human security, as it directly impacts individuals’ physical well-being, dignity, and freedom from fear. While dominant frameworks emphasize institutional or state-led interventions, I argue that human security is most effectively sustained when communities resolve conflicts through their own culturally grounded practices.
The Kalasha—a small, religious, and culturally distinct minority—have cultivated a peaceful society where violent conflict is rare. This rarity stems from three key practices:
First, conflicts are resolved quickly through inclusive, nonviolent methods that emphasize restoration over punishment. Second, social deterrents, including spiritual beliefs, fear of supernatural judgment, and a culture of peace education, discourage violence and reinforce collective responsibility. Third, nonviolent outlets for expression, such as songs of complaint, allow grievances to be aired respectfully, reducing the risk of escalation.
Both men and women play a key role in peacebuilding, ensuring gender-balanced participation and legitimacy. Notably, the Kalasha have no word for “peace” in their language, reflecting a worldview in which peace is not a fixed condition but a continuous, lived process embedded in ritual, dialogue, and community life.
This case challenges top-down peacebuilding models and affirms the importance of recognizing Indigenous approaches as central—not supplementary—to human security. By highlighting the Kalasha experience, the research contributes to global debates on the localization of peace and the need for culturally relevant models of conflict prevention and resolution. It calls for a shift from intervention to local ownership, arguing that peace is most sustainable when nurtured from within
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