Leadership plays a critical role in post-conflict reconstruction as it has the central task to mobilize and engage people to define a collective vision and take action to ensure that the vision is effectively implemented through a strategic governance framework. It is important to understand that leadership does not refer to one single person or one single institution. Instead, it refers to the complex system of leadership present in a specific context in all three governance sectors, i.e. government, civil society and the private sector. Tool 2.1 highlights that after conflict leaders from all sectors of society must be included in public administration reconstruction process. Experience has shown that exclusionary politics, i.e. the exclusion of some political groups from the process of public administration reconstruction, increases exponentially the chances of a relapse into conflict. [Read more]