Scholarship for Peace, Sustainability, and Community

Integral Peace Leadership: Theory and Practice for Creating Peaceful Change

Dr. McIntyre Miller’s first book presents the transformative framework of integral peace leadership, a holistic approach to challenging violence and aggression while building positive, just, and equitable systems and structures, and showcases stories of community peace leaders working to build sustainable, peaceful change around the world.

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Selected Publications.

  • Peace Leadership.

    Abdou, A., McIntyre Miller, W., Kennedy, K., & Benci-Woodward, L. (2025). Investing in Innerwork: The development of a peace leadership scale for educators. International Journal of Leadership in Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2025.2518109

    McIntyre Miller, W., Alomair, M., Kennedy, K., & Ferguson, B. (2025). Fostering peace leadership in learning and practice: A pilot study analysis of the peace leadership development curriculum. International Journal of Public Leadership. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPL-02-2025-0029

    McIntyre Miller, W. (2024). Symposium on leadership competencies for peace leadership: An overview and invitation. Journal of Leadership Studies, 18(3), 48-53. https://doi-org.chapman.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/jls.21913

    McIntyre Miller, W., Abdou, A., Clancy, C., Stephens, K. (2024). The Peace Project: Creating elementary school peace spaces and places. Frontiers in Education, 9. DOI:10.3389/feduc.2024.1406917

    McIntyre Miller, W., Hilt, L., Atwi, R., & Irwin, N. (2024). Developing peace leadership in community spaces: Lessons from the Peace Practice Alliance. Journal of Peace Education, 21(3), 402-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400201.2024.2399093

    McIntyre Miller, W. &  Atwi, R. (2023). Migrant and refugee women: A case for community leadership. Journal of Leadership Studies, 12(2), 47-52.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21858

    McIntyre Miller, W. & Alomair, M. (2022). Understanding integral peace leadership in practice: Lessons and learnings from Women PeaceMaker Narratives. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 28(4), 437–448. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000618

    Atwi, R., McIntyre Miller, W., Abdou, A.S., Alomair, M.O., Irwin, N.J., Hilt, L., Lotfi, N., murray, s., & Richmond, G. (2022). Peace leadership education: Stories of growth, training, and development. In E. Schellhammer (Ed.) Evolution of peace leadership and practical implications (pp. 101-123). IGI Global.

    Irwin, N., McIntyre Miller, W., Lotfi, N., Thomas, C., & Zuwayed, O.W. (2022). A peaceful view of leadership studies. In E. Schellhammer (Ed.) Evolution of peace leadership and practical implications (pp. 61-77). IGI Global.

    McIntyre Miller, W., & Alomair, M. (2019). Peace leadership for sustainable change: Lessons from Women PeaceMakers. In H. E. Schockman, V. A. Hernández Soto and A. Boitano de Moras (Eds.) Peace, reconciliation and social justice in the 21st Century: The role of leaders and followers (pp. 227-244). Bingley, England: Emerald Group.

    McIntyre Miller, W., & Wundah, M. (2018). Integral peace leadership: The case of Christiana Thorpe of Sierra Leone. In S. Alamadas & S. Byrne (Eds.), Peace leadership: The quest for connectedness (pp. 62-74). Abingdon, England: Routledge.

    McIntyre Miller, W., and Abdou, A. (2018). Cultivating a professional culture of peace and inclusion: Conceptualizing practical applications of peace leadership in schools. Frontiers in Education, 53. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2018.00056

    McIntyre Miller, W., & Grogan, M. (2017). Aung San Suu Kyi: A leadership journey toward peace and democracy. In T. Normore & J. Brooks (Eds.), Leadership lessons: Great thinkers on equity, justice and education (pp. 131-139). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

    McIntyre Miller, W. (2016). Toward a scholarship of peace leadership. International Journal of Public Leadership, 12, 216-226.

    McIntyre Miller, W., & Wundah, M. (2015). A peace profile of Christiana Thorpe. Peace Review, 27, 515- 521.

    McIntyre Miller, W., & Green, Z. (2015). An integral perspective of peace leadership. Integral Leadership Review, 15(2). Retrieved from http://integralleadershipreview.com/12903-47-an-integral-perspective-of-peace-leadership/

  • Peace and Sustainability Leadership.

    Sheridan, K., McIntyre Miller, W., & Satterwhite, R. (2023). Centering intersectional sustainability in leadership education: A case for the sustainable development goals. New Directions in Student Leadership, 223(179), 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20566

    Satterwhite, R., Sheridan, K., & McIntyre Miller, W. (2023). Teaching Sustainability through Leadership Education. New Directions in Student Leadership, 223(179).

    Satterwhite, R., Sheridan, K., & McIntyre Miller, W. (2023). Introduction to leadership for complex problems and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. New Directions in Student Leadership, 223(179), 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20565

    Satterwhite, R., Sheridan, K., & McIntyre Miller, W. (2022). Tensions in sustainability leadership. In K. Guthrie & K. Priest (Eds.), Navigating complexities in leadership: Moving towards critical hope (pp. 27-38). Information Age Publishing.

    Satterwhite, R., Sarid, A., Cunningham, C., Goryunova, E., Crandall, H., Morrison, J., Sheridan, K., & McIntyre Miler, W. (2020). Contextualizing our leadership education approach to complex problem solving: Shifting paradigms and evolving knowledge: Priority 5 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020-2025. Journal of Leadership Studies

    Sheridan, K., Satterwhite, R., & McIntyre Miller, W. (2019). Developing leaders in place: Graduate leadership education for a sustainable and peaceful future. In K. Kremers, A. Liepins, & A. York (Eds.), Developing change agents: Innovative practices for sustainability leadership. Angles Publishing. Retrieved from https://open.lib.umn.edu/changeagents/chapter/developing-leaders-in-place/

    Satterwhite, R., Sheridan, K., & McIntyre Miller, W. (2016). Rediscovering deep time: Sustainability and the need to re-engage with multiple dimensions of time in leadership studies. Journal of Leadership Studies, 9(4), 47-53.

    Satterwhite, R., McIntyre Miller, W., & Sheridan, K. (2015). Leadership for sustainability and peace: Emergent themes for leadership education and development. In M. Sowcik (Ed.), Leadership 2050: Contextualizing global leadership processes for the future (pp. 59-74). Bingley, England: Emerald Group.

  • Community Development.

    McIntyre Miller, W. & Atwi, R. (2023). Migrant and refugee women: A case for community leadership. Journal of Leadership Studies. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21858

    McIntyre Miller, W. (2019). Through community eyes: The role of international organizations in postconflict community development in Sierra Leone. Journal of Community Practice, 27, 60-77.

    Olberding, J. C., & McIntyre Miller, W. (2017). Building community together: A study of inter-neighborhood collaboration and development in Cincinnati, Ohio. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 49, 175-190.

    Olberding, J., & McIntyre Miller, W. (2016). Energizing community development through community events. In J. Olberding (Ed.), Social enterprise and special events (pp. 145-159). Routledge.

    McIntyre Miller, W. (2015). Moving forward in Sierra Leone: Community-based factors for postconflict development. In B. Hales, N. Walzer, & J. Calvin (Eds.), Innovative community responses to disaster (pp. 11-26). New York, NY: Routledge. (Reprinted from Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 43, 505-565, 2012)

    McIntyre Miller, W., & Harter, N. (2015). Liminality and community leadership: Transitioning leadership in postconflict in Sierra Leone. International Leadership Journal, 7(1), 3-22. Retrieved from http://www.tesc.edu/documents/ILJ_Winter_2015.pdf

    McIntyre Miller, W., & Olberding, J. (2014). The “Community Entertainment District” designation as a tool for urban redevelopment in Cincinnati, OH. Journal of Community Practice, 22(1-2), 10-28.

    McIntyre Miller, W. (2013). Chieftaincy-based community dispute resolution: The case of Sierra Leone. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 30, 295-308.

    McIntyre Miller, W. (2012). Moving forward in Sierra Leone: Community-based factors for postconflict development. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 43, 550-565.