Guest: Mike Hardy, Founding Director, Centre for Trust, Peace, & Social Relations (Coventry University)

Ukraine. Gaza. Myanmar. As wars continue raging across the globe, we strive to understand the roots of conflict. Mike Hardy finds one tap root is bad leadership.

In this rediscovered episode, Mike shares the role of poor leadership — more encouragingly, he also identifies the elements in both leadership and culture which can lead to positive peace.

NOTE: As an older episode, the audio quality isn’t up to our usual standards, but the conversation is too important to miss.

Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.

Enjoy a binge session with Mike Hardy covering different aspects of his research on peace:

• Democracy on the Run with Mike Hardy, Veronika Anghel, & Matt Qvortrup

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More information on Mike’s work — and that of his colleagues — is on the Centre for Trust, Peace, & Social Relations’ website at https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/trust-peace-social-relations.

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About Our Guest:  

Mike Hardy is Chair of Intercultural Relations and a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He is adjunct professor of leadership at the LSPR Institute of Communications and Business in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mike has been twice honoured in the UK, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the HM Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. Mike is a Board Director and Chair of the International Leadership Association (www.ila-net.org), Chair of Trustees of The Faith and Belief Forum (http://faithbeliefforum.org), the leading interfaith charity in the UK, and life-fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.