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"The gulf between those who practice grassroots leadership and those who theorize about leadership has been shrinking for some time. Much of this is due to changingimages of who leaders are and what they should do. In the pasthalf century, notions about the essence of leadership have shifted from a hierarchical view that leadership flows from a leadership position to a much more lateral view that leadership roles are available to everyone. James MacGregor Burns’ Leadership (1978), which popularized “transformative leadership,” was one of the first to describe the shift from a command-and-control vision to one that is more inclusive and participatory. Robert Greenleaf’s notions about “servant leadership” (1977) held that leadership should at its core attend to matters of inequity and social injustice. A third seminal work, one that left solely hierarchical views of leadership behind forever, theoretically if not always in practice, was Ronald Heifetz’ 1994 book, Leadership Without Easy Answers. In it, Heifetz introduced the notion of what he calls adaptive work, or the learning required when neither the problem norits solution is clearly defined (a term cited in several of the chapters in this book). Learning is the key term in adaptive work. Because there are no easy answers or singular solutions in adaptive work, achieving agreement on a course of action means first that participants must recognize that their existing perspectives won’t lead them to a resolution, and second that they must suspend assumptions, entertain fresh questions, and try on the perspectives of others. They must realize that a solution is not a matter of applying technical solutions more expertly, but rather one of framing problems differently."

"Malaysia’s 13th general election, held 5 May 2013, saw an unprecedentedly close race between the incumbent Barisan Nasional (National Front, BN) and Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Alliance, Pakatan) coalitions. For the first time in Malaysian history, a challenger coalition not only kept the BN from regaining the two-thirds parliamentary super-majority it had lost in the previous election, in 2008, but eked out a slim majority of the popular vote. While many Malaysian election is a big event, this one in particular merits close scrutiny. The present volume offers evidence and analysis with which to probe both the merits of common interpretations of who voted how, and why, and to suggest new readings on Malaysian politics."

"Dalam kurun waktu dua tahun terakhir, wilayah Sumatera Selatan telah menjadi ajang meningkatnya protes-protes para petani desa dataran rendah sehubungan dengan hilangnya hak-hak menyangkut tanah dan akses sumberdaya hutan. Protes-protes ini menjelma dalam bentuk kekerasan fisik dan perusakan kepemilikan para pemegang konsesi hutan,perkebunan kelapa sawit, tambak udang, pulp dan kertas. Makalah ini memfokus pada dua kasus konflik. Pertama, antara penduduk desa di Kundi, Bangka dengan PT Gunung Sawit Bina Lestari, perusahaan pemegang konsesi sawit. Konflik kedua berlangsung antara PT Musi Hutan Persada yang menguasai hampir 300.000 hektar lahan hutan di Sumatera Selatan dengan penduduk desa di Kabupaten Muara Enim. Kasus-kasus di kantung permukiman ini memberikan pemahaman tentang dampak serta hambatan dalam proses demokratisasi dan transisi menuju otonomi daerah."