Interlude: The Geneva Leadership Alliance: Learning to Lead (and Follow) in Peacebuilding and Social Justice

The Geneva Leadership Alliance has engaged 1,280 participants from over 114 countries. Our client/participant/beneficiary list stretches from NATO, to UN Agencies, to private firms, to foundations, and to small NGO directors from rural field outposts.

In September 2015 the Center for Creative Leadership and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy launched an Alliance for Advancing Leadership in Peace and Security, now known as The Geneva Leadership Alliance. GCSP has its roots in a training program designed on the initiative of the Swiss Confederation to strengthen national expertise in the field of disarmament in the midst of the Cold War, and it evolved into the Swiss contribution to the NATO Partnership for Peace program prioritizing education and policy research in areas of peace and security over military engagement. Today GCSP’s Foundation Council consists of 52 member states. Combining expertise, practices, and collective intelligence of the GCSP and Center for Creative Leadership communities, the Geneva Leadership Alliance is developing individual leaders as well as building collective capacity to lead across national governmental agencies, NGOs, and intergovernmental agencies (like UN/EU agencies), in humanitarian and other endeavors.