ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of peace leadership within protracted ethnopolitical conflicts, noticing the different types of peace leaders that de-escalate tensions and play a significant leadership role in the transformation of these conflicts. It highlights the impact of political psychology, taking into account the importance of decision-making, motivation, socialization, stereotypes, and personality that impact the peace leaders’ behavior and leadership styles. “Leadership is the influencing process of leaders and followers to achieve objectives through change”. The historical context of a person living at a particular time in a particular cultural, political, and socioeconomic system is important to comprehend how the early development of children influences the perspective they develop. The quality of leaders ensures that protracted ethnopolitical conflicts will either take on a constructive or destructive mode. Multiple good non-violent peace leaders with certain leadership styles are collectively needed to make peace in societies transitioning out of violence.
