ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the context of leadership and its importance to understanding values-based leadership. It provides an overview of personal values and how values inform leader behaviors and values-based leadership. Jansen Kraemer identified four principles of values-based leadership: self-reflection, balance and perspective, true self-confidence, and genuine humility. From the perspective of servant leadership, S. R. Ferch and L. C. Spears argued that the servant-leaders are “devoted to the moral and loving depths of the interior,” and in so doing, they “become a light to the generations, bringing hope and direction amid the confusion”. The chapter focuses on personal values that inform leader behavior, the concept of values-based leadership, which is foundational to the concept of servant leadership, and offers this as a framework for peace leadership, through the work of the first American woman Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams. Jane Addams lived her life with caring, courage, and compassion.
