ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to provide a better understanding of conscious peace leadership in terms of the intensity of human connection. It explores the implications for conscious peace leadership in terms of research, practice, and policy by examining the actions, thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes of Nelson Mandela and Sri Aurobindo. The method of interaction between leaders and followers can either be transactional or transformative. Leaders who raise the level of human interactions and the level of ethics of both leaders and followers will have a transforming effect on both of them. Mandela was expelled from the campus of the University of Fort Hare, the only Western-style institution of high learning for South African blacks at the time, for participating in a boycott against university policies. Mandela was a galvanizing force in the Black South African movement to gain freedom from foreign independence, in this case, F. W. de Klerks’ Afrikaans government, which originated with the Dutch.
