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The historical & current weaknesses of government structures in Los Angeles, CA, are examined in an analysis of city charter legislation & its implications. Los Angeles's first locally drafted charter went into effect in 1889 with two principal impacts: increased power to local citizens at the expense of legislators & the city council at the expense of the mayor. Although the fragmentation of power in municipal government was supposed to provide effective checks & balances, it is argued that it has undermined the capacity of municipal government to achieve needed change. The most recent charter of 1925 established the referendum & initiative process to lessen the control of special interests over the legislative, policy branch of government. However, special interests have taken control of the referendum/initiative process, thereby avoiding deliberative debate & taking power from elected officials. Although the 1925 charter's limits on political party authority were previously seen as necessary, it is concluded that such parties are needed in the modern multiethnic & polycultural Los Angeles in which mediating & consensus-building institutions are lacking. 4 Maps, 27 References. T. Sevier

The evolution of economics, politics, & culture in Los Angeles, CA, is discussed in reference to an associated shift in the prevailing theories regarding the urban present & future. Los Angeles has been historically depicted as outside the mainstream of US urban culture. It is argued here that the media has exaggerated the images of urban sprawl, inconsequential architecture, freeways, sun, surf, smog in Los Angeles & that it actually bears a strong resemblance to many emerging world cities & US urban centers. Contrary to the legacy of industrial metropolis advocated by the Chicago school, the emerging "Los Angeles school" of urban studies has presented a more contemporary depiction of modern urban centers characterized by dispersed patterns of low-density growth, multicultural/-ethnic enclaves, & a multiplicity of urban centers in a single region. Los Angeles also succumbs to the Third/First World dichotomy of many urban centers: high concentration of wealth alongside vast homelessness & need. It is concluded that the traditional modes of control have deteriorated, & a variety of unorthodox economic, sociocultural, & political structures have emerged to fill this void. 3 Figures, 31 References. T. Sevier

Conflicts and violence, repression and oppression have always been part of the world, resulting in situations where no one really wins and leading to stalemates that cause the degradation of economic order - and of the human condition. Whether conflicts can be won or not, the human cost must be addressed when building a lasting peace, and this role falls now to our future leaders and followers. In Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century, expert contributors explore the ways in which leaders and followers can bring forth pacifism, peace building, nonviolence, forgiveness and social cooperation. The chapters focus on the role of positive public policies on the national and international order, and the role leadership and followership plays in harmonizing differences and personifying space. They include lessons learned from post-conflict societies in Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chile, and others to remind us all that peace is a collective endeavour where no one can take a back seat. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from the worlds of leadership, followership, transitional justice, and international law, this research provides a blueprint of how people-led, bottom-up, grassroots efforts can foster reconciliation and a more peaceful world

Foreword: Rick Barton Introduction: On Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice; H. Eric Schockman, Vanessa Hernández, Aldo Boitano Part I: Reconciliation 1. Leading and Following for Transformation in a Society Shaped by its Traumatizing Racial History; Ira Chaleff 2. The Role of Work with Psychological Traumatization and Self-Help in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation; Charles Tauber and Sandra Marić 3. Mercy, Justice and Reconciliation: Pope Francis, Inclusive Leadership and the Roman Catholic Church; Douglas Cremer 4. Uses of A Holding Environment as Container for Stepping Up and Stepping Back in the Context of Truth and Reconciliation; Sara Chace Part II: Community Building: To Make, Build, and Maintain Peace 5. Second Generations Perspectives and Practices on Reconciliation After Genocide: A Case Study of Rwanda; Chantal Marie Ingabire & Annemick Richters 6. Research Leader-Follower Development for Peacebuilding and Social Justice: The African Young Graduate Scholars Development Program; Sylvester Maphosa & Alphonse Keasley 7. Women Can Make A Difference: Economic Marginalization of Women's Right to Equity in Post-Conflict Context of Sri Lanka and the Revival of Challenges Beyond UNRSC 1325; Ziyana Nazeemudeen 8. Economically Empowering Women as Sustainable Conflict Resolution: A Case Study on Building Peace in Uganda Through Social Enterprise; Lisa Liberatore Maracina Interlude: The Geneva Leadership Alliance: learning to lead (and follow) in peacebuilding and social justice; Patrick Sweet Part III: International Law and Social Justice 9. Women's Post-War Activism in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Human Right Approach to Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Through Liminal Space; Edin Ibrahinefedic & Randal Joy Thompson 10. Climate Justice: Building Opportunities for Women's Participation and Leadership in the Climate Change Regime; Douglas de Castro 11. Toxic to Transformational Leadership: Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice as the Paradigm; Lorraine Stefani 12. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Upstanders and Moral Obedience; Bruce C. Pascoe 13. The Leadership of the Vicariate of Solidarity During the Dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990); Fátima Esther Martínez-Mejía & Nelson Andrés Ortiz Villalobos Part IV: Peacebuilding 14. Peace Leadership for Sustainable Change: Lessons from Women PeaceMakers; Whitney McIntyre Miller & Miznah Omair Alomair 15. Beyond Ubuntu: What the World Can Learn About Community Building in Africa; Lyndon Rego, Katleho Mohona & Gavin Peter 16. Enhancing Peace Through Survivor's Leading Transitional Justice Efforts: A New Paradigm; Malini Laxinarayan & Benjamin Durr 17. Conflict Management in Extractive Industries in Indonesia: Leaders-Followers Dynamic to Achieve Perceived Social Justice in Communities; Josephine Marieta, Bagus Takwin, & Corina D. Riantoputra Epilogue: Democratizing Leadership: Pre-Conflict Preventative Peacebuilding; Mike Klein.