Casting Shadow: Founders and the Unique Challenges of a Terrorist Group’s First Leadership Change

Department of Political Affairs

10.1093/oso/9780198733591.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Herman T. Salton

Keyword(s):

Secretary General ◽

The Political ◽

Leadership Change ◽

Member States ◽

Political Analysis ◽

Peace Agreements

This chapter assesses the role of the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) in the Rwanda genocide. It situates DPA within the Secretariat of the early 1990s, explains the importance given to it by Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali, and analyses the department’s reaction to the crisis. The DPA’s role in monitoring the Arusha Peace Agreements and in providing the ‘political’ analysis of the Rwandan context is also reviewed, as is Boutros-Ghali’s desire for a powerful ‘political’ department to be juxtaposed to member states’ preference for peacekeeping and DPKO. The chapter also considers the leadership change of March 1994 when, a month before the genocide, Marrack Goulding took over the whole of DPA.

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Faith in Systems or in People: Leadership, Change Strategies and Innovation in the Public Sector

The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services ◽

10.1108/17479886200600038 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 15-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Su Maddock

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Change Strategies ◽

Leadership Change ◽

The Public

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Leadership change and health at UN Women

The Lancet ◽

10.1016/s0140-6736(13)61695-5 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 382 (9891) ◽

pp. 479 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

The Lancet

Keyword(s):

Leadership Change

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ENABLING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE – LEADERSHIP, COMMITMENT TO CHANGE AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF CHANGE READINESS

Journal of Business Economics and Management ◽

10.3846/16111699.2011.642083 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 348-363 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Sinnappan Santhidran ◽

V. G. R. Chandran ◽

Junbo Borromeo

Keyword(s):

Change Readiness ◽

Change Leadership ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Asian Countries ◽

Leadership Change ◽

Commitment To Change ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Relationship

There has been little empirical analysis on the complex relationship between leadership, change readiness and commitment to change in the context of Asian countries. In this paper, we propose a research model to analyze the interrelationship between leadership, change readiness and commitment to change using the partial least square technique. Results of the study suggest that leadership positively and significantly affect change readiness but not commitment to change. Consequently, change readiness is found to significantly affect commitment to change. In other words, change readiness is found to mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and commitment to change. This may suggest that the influence of leadership is a sequential process affecting change readiness, and in turn, the commitment to change as opposed to the conventional belief that it affects both change readiness and commitment to change simultaneously. The implication of the study is further discussed.

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Merger Destiny: Synthesizing Organizational and Executive Leadership Change

Nurse Leader ◽

10.1016/j.mnl.2012.03.004 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 29-32 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kathleen Brodbeck

Keyword(s):

Executive Leadership ◽

Leadership Change

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Kazakhstan’s New Foreign Policy after the Leadership Change : with reference to “Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy 2020-2030” of Tokayev Government

THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ◽

10.21740/jas.2021.11.24.4.171 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 171-190

Author(s):

Jieon Lee

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Leadership Change

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The 2016 Leadership Change in Vietnam and Its Long-Term Implications

Southeast Asian Affairs ◽

10.1355/aa17-1x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol SEAA17 (1) ◽

pp. 421-433

Author(s):

Alexander Vuving ◽

Keyword(s):

Leadership Change

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Introducing a new dataset on leadership change in rebel groups, 1946–2010

Journal of Peace Research ◽

10.1177/0022343318802979 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 306-315 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Carmela Lutmar ◽

Lesley G Terris

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Future Research ◽

Theoretical Argument ◽

War And Peace ◽

Leadership Change ◽

Rebel Groups ◽

Interstate Disputes ◽

Leadership Changes ◽

The Impact ◽

Qualitative Literature

Leaders and leadership changes are found to influence states’ foreign policy decisions, in particular with respect to war and peace between states. Although this issue is also addressed in the qualitative literature on intrastate wars, the influence of leadership turnovers in civil war has received limited systematic attention. One reason for this is the scarcity of quantitative data on rebel group leaderships. To fill this gap, we present a comprehensive dataset on leadership changes in rebel groups, 1946–2010, organized by rebel-month. The effects of leadership changes among parties engaged in civil war are argued to be more complex than those found in interstate disputes. In this article we present our theoretical argument followed by presentation of the variables in the dataset and descriptive statistics. To demonstrate the potential research value of the dataset we examine the impact of leader shifts on civil war settlement in Africa. We conclude with avenues for future research which might benefit from this dataset.

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