Leading at the Edge

The Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Tragedy Assistance Programme for Survivors International (TAPS), and the International Leadership Association will co-host a session on Leading at the Edge - Turning War Grief into Positive Leadership for Peace. The session builds on a prior panel conversation held at the Geneva Peace Week 2020 (Thursday 5 November).

About this Event

This conversation will explore leadership principles and characteristics that can transform deep war grief experienced at the personal level into proactive positive leadership for peace. An interactive panel based on case studies related to the conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Nepal respectively, will discuss what leadership principles and characteristics are required to move from what in most circumstances traps individuals in a victim situation into a position of strength where the individual develops abilities and capabilities to exercise empowering leadership for peace and for the greater public good. What principled leadership priorities, characteristics and behaviors are required to lead in a pandemic and transformational world? What lessons can be learned from survivors of great tragedies that can inform and empower peace leaders across industries and across regions and conflicts? 

Members of Panel

• Ms Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, GCSP
• Ms Honey Al Sayed, Founder, Media and Arts for Peace Initiative; GCSP Associate Fellow 
• Ms Bonnie Carroll, President & Founder at Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
• Prof Dr Mike Hardy, CMG OBE FRSA, Chair, International Leadership Association; Professor of Intercultural Relations and founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University
• Ms Lily Thapa, Lecturer, Tribhuwan University, Founder, Women for Human Rights, Nepal

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