NAPF PEACE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
I am currently giving workshops around the country on peace leadership, strategy, and tactics to high schools, colleges, and citizens of all ages who want to become more effective at creating positive change. Please e-mail me if you would like me to give a workshop in your area.
This is a five-hour workshop on leadership for the 21st century. This workshop teaches the powerful form of leadership that is needed to promote positive change in communities, countries, and the world. It is the same form of leadership that Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Susan B. Anthony practiced. It is also the form of leadership that our world requires if humanity is going to solve its most serious problems and survive in the 21st century. West Point, which gave me a foundational understanding of peace leadership and its role in the 21st century, taught me that leadership training can help people succeed at careers, causes, and life.
I graduated from West Point in 2002, was deployed to Baghdad, and served in the army for seven years in numerous leadership positions. Don’t let stereotypes about the military fool you. West Point has one of the best leadership programs in the world, and since leadership principles are universal, much of West Point’s leadership training can be applied to peace, human rights, conflict resolution, and global change. The business community has already acknowledged the strength of West Point’s leadership training. The two most influential business magazines in America are Forbes and Fortune. In 2009, Forbes ranked West Point as the best college in the country, and in April 2010 Fortune had a picture of a West Point classmate of mine on its cover and other officers with the heading, “The Future of Business Leadership.” This workshop will show how timeless leadership principles and skills can improve our lives and the world around us.
West Point teaches that leadership is an act of service, selflessness, and taking responsibility. West Point also teaches that the most effective way to lead is by example, not by force. The most persuasive way for a leader to mold the behavior of others is to exhibit admirable behavior, not by shouting orders. For every leadership principle West Point taught me, I realized that Gandhi was the best example. West Point taught me that true leaders do not rely on rank, but the strength of their character and power of their example to influence others. Gandhi led 390 million people to their freedom with no official power. He was not a general or a president, and his character and example demonstrated the kind of leadership that our world needs most.
This workshop will prepare students and engaged citizens with the skills they need to make a difference in the world. This workshop will also give people tools that can help them be successful in their career, personal relationships, and life. Leadership skills are also life skills, and all true leadership is peace leadership.
Click on the following link to learn more about the NAPF Peace Leadership Program:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/peace-leaders/plp_booklet.pdf/
PEACEFUL REVOLUTION: How to Create the Future that Humanity Needs to Survive
My next book will be Peaceful Revolution, although in a way it is my first book. I have been working on Peaceful Revolution since 2001, and I will spend the next year completely rewriting it for a third time. Much of my life has been devoted to this book, and it will have more new content than Will War Ever End? and The End of War combined. Although Will War Ever End? and The End of War explore human nature quite extensively, Peaceful Revolution will explore human nature far more deeply. It will also be much more personal than the previous two books. Only now do I feel like I am strong enough as a writer to do the book justice, and I hope to have it ready in time for a March 2012 publication.
ROAD TO PEACE SERIES
