Disintegration or Integration: The Sustainability of Societies in Transition

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About This Module How To Use This Module Section One: Overview of Disintegration, Integration and Sustainable Development Section Two: Measuring Sustainable Development Section Three: Disintegration or Integration: Case Study of the CIS Section Four: Disintegration and Integration in Your Country Evaluation Form

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LEAD Background and History LEAD is an international non-profit organization with a fast growing network of 1600 leaders in more than 80 countries. Our shared mission is to inspire leadership for a sustainable world. We do this by searching worldwide for outstanding people, developing their leadership potential through innovative training programmes and working with them to mobilise others to make a real difference to the future of this planet. In 1991, the founders of LEAD identified the urgent need for a generation of new leaders for a new world. We began to recruit leaders, mostly from developing countries, and built strong relationships with them through intensive training and both face-to-face and virtual networking. We believe that in order to build a sustainable world, we need to build bridges between people, professions, and countries. LEAD's training and action network is coordinated through an international secretariat based at Imperial College London. There are fourteen LEAD Member Programme offices across the world. LEAD Training and Capacity Development These LEAD centres deliver training programmes that challenge traditional notions of leadership with progressive participatory techniques. Our trainees learn through multi-stakeholder dialogue, whole systems thinking, and inclusive cross-cultural processes. We train business executives, government officials, academics, NGO directors, activists, education and media professionals. Our multi-lingual training team works with top-level experts and practitioners from around the world who focus on emerging topics relevant to leadership and sustainable development. Each year since 1991, an average of up to 200 LEAD Fellows have graduated from our core training programme. Fellows gain first hand experiences of the problems facing their own and other countries and learn how to work effectively in teams to find solutions. We equip these "rising stars" with the skills and knowledge to make them valuable leaders in their own countries and on the world stage. LEAD also constantly works with like-minded partner organizations to co-design and develop new leadership programmes and training resources. Training courses and learning events for international organizations and various national bodies are developed and delivered, as are specialist publications in print and electronic format. LEAD Action Network In addition to delivering high quality leadership training, LEAD is committed to achieving real change through our global action network. We encourage our leaders to turn their ideas into action, become dynamic change-agents and build initiatives for a sustainable world. LEAD provides long-term support for individuals striving to find solutions to their countries' problems and we keep our leaders in touch with each other through in-country meetings, web services and peer learning initiatives. We identify best practice within our network and provide information to partners about our leaders most innovative policies and projects. LEAD also builds multi-stakeholder partnerships to develop and implement the network's best ideas and replicate them in other countries. LEAD sets targets and priorities within sustainable development for its leaders to collaborate on. These action programs mobilize and harness the collective talent, vision and synergy in this unique network.