ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the main concepts of conflict response as conflict management, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation in contemporary academic discourse. It presents the nexus of leadership and conflict response. The book describes a conceptual exploration of leadership, by covering the concepts and definitions of key terms aiming at introducing the concept of leadership in international relations. It explores different leadership styles through the lens of servant, transformational, spiritual, authoritarian, adaptive, discursive, authentic, and charismatic leadership styles. The book provides readers with an understanding of how the dynamics of international politics have been evolving for some time and how this puts a challenge to understanding the issue of leadership in global politics. It examines the role civil society can play in wider struggles for social justice necessary to tackle structural violence underpinning conflict and the challenges and obstacles still faced.
