Social transformation, leadership and healing
Date
2010
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SUN MeDIA
Abstract
FOREWORD: During two invigorating days, academics, research students and community
leaders came together to discuss the challenges of social transformation, the
definition and role of leadership in the transformation, and the role of various
healing processes in achieving reconciliation. The intellectually stimulating
deliberations confirmed on the basis of case studies that social transformation
fails when leadership fails. The concept of leadership was interrogated by
several of the presenters. What emerges is that leadership comes from
within the individual – it is an inner passion – and that the leader is a servant
of society rather than a commander of people. The role of leadership should
not be perceived as restricted to local, regional and national governments,
but is necessary at all levels of society: it is a collective responsibility. To seek
change we must first embrace the change.
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CITATION: Keim, M. (ed). 2010. Conference Proceedings – Social Transformation, Leadership and Healing, presented at Bellville, June 5-6 2008, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. doi:10.18820/9781919985367.
The original publication is available at http://www.africansunmedia.co.za
Presented by EFSA (Ecumenical Foundation of Southern Africa), Institute for Theological and Interdisciplinary Research.
The original publication is available at http://www.africansunmedia.co.za
Presented by EFSA (Ecumenical Foundation of Southern Africa), Institute for Theological and Interdisciplinary Research.
Keywords
Leadership -- South Africa -- Congresses, Social change -- South Africa -- Congresses
Citation
Keim, M. (ed). 2010. Conference Proceedings – Social Transformation, Leadership and Healing, presented at Bellville, June 5-6 2008, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. doi:10.18820/9781919985367.