Transformational Leadership of Community Leaders for Peace

Abstract

When the world has entered the era of high globalization, it therefore affects human society, especially “leaders” focusing on building peace and having to concentrate more on “Leadership” because the modern world is in a high risk of unrest problems and conflicts; knowledge and virtue are hence important factors that must be developed for leaders in creating vision together with faith and confidence for accepting leaders. The purpose of this article is to present the conceptual theories about the evolution of leadership in the past up to the present both in western and eastern, and Buddhist principles to get the good leadership qualities of the community for peace by having a conceptual framework and issues to be presented, i.e. transformational leadership and peace leader characteristics by creating peace that is the inner peace level to create external peace; transformational leadership is the theory of the new leadership or a new paradigm. From the study, it was found that the development of leadership characteristics has developed in a sequence. The researcher collected data by using in-depth interviews with the leaders at the executive level who focus on Dhamma and concentrate on building peace in organizations and society, together with 2 focus groups of discussion in 2 communities for peace to analyze for searching the characteristics of transformational leadership in order to see that leaders and followers have an influence to one another covering more dimensions, i.e. the dimensions of people, work and situation, which are currently being studied to develop leadership widespread by creating ways of practices that are good examples in living life to create inner peace and to bring knowledge to create external peace with confidence and the yield of concrete peace.