LEADERSHIP GENETIC ENGINEERING FORMULA:

About the Book

This book is the omega of volume 1 titled Why Leaders Fail and Plunge the Innocent into a Sea of Agonies; hence, its justified designation as volume 2. Its purpose is to complete the marathon research expedition commenced by volume 1 (alfa) to search for the mysteries surrounding and being responsible for man’s chronic failure in the art of leadership, which has consequently always plunged the innocent under a failed leader into a sea of various acute agonies throughout all generations. In this regard, this volume is an etiology and prognosis of leadership failure epidemic that has evaded recognition of every past research effort to unlock and paralyze those mysteries responsible for its existence. Using this double-edged methodology and burning ambition, the volume systematically and vigorously synthesizes the root causes of this virus into a coherent body of knowledge that has, in the end, led to formulation of a leadership genetic engineering formula viz: elite and grass root conflict vaccination, able to provide humanity with an enabling environment of a hybrid culture requisite for good governance, democracy, and prosperity for all. This formula is a function of the discovery of a similar formula formulated and used by the ancient Egyptian people (7000–5000 BC), which enabled them to develop into an extraordinary hybrid culture and good leadership that, in turn, led them into a nation of immense prosperity, surpassing all other nations of their generation in Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. Hence, the unique significance of the research efforts contained in this volume 2 in its capacity as a long-lived breakthrough for social sciences—and political science, in particular—against the scourge of bad leadership to humanity. And hence, its justification as an omega of this marathon research expedition.

About the Author

Professor Agola Auma-Osolo is currently an associate professor of international relations, diplomacy, and international law; chairman of Post-Graduate Studies Programme, School of Development and Strategic Studies (SDSS), Maseno University; and president of the International Centre for Peace and Conflict Reconciliation Initiative for Africa (ICPCRIA), a nongovernmental organization based in Nairobi under whose jurisdiction he published an in-depth clinical diagnosis and prescription of the 1994 Rwanda Civil War titled The Rwanda Catastrophe: Its Actual Root-Causes and Remedy to Pre-Empt a Similar Situation in Rwanda (May 1995) in English, French, and Spanish, and disseminated it to all heads of state and international organizations. He earned his PhD in political science from Howard University (1979); his Hague Certificate in International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law based at the International Court of Justice (1969); and his MA and BA degrees in international relations from University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill (1969 and 1968, respectively). He is a Fellow of the American National Science Foundation (1969) and an Institute of International Education (IIE) scholar (1964). His publications include Cause-Effects of Modern African Nationalism on the World Market (1983), which earned a nomination for the Herskovists Award (1985) organized by African Studies Association in North America; “Rationality and Foreign Policy Process” the Yearbook of World Affairs 1977, which earned him a PhD studies fellowship from the American Society on Foreign Policy (1978); Conflict Vaccination and Its Application to Conflict Menace (soon coming out from the press); etc. He has also served as a diplomat in a position of chief administrative secretary cum technical assistance coordinator (CAS/TAC) with Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA), Addis Ababa (1988–1992); as director/administrator, the Kenya National Academy of Sciences (KNAS) Nairobi (1985–88); and as vice president of the Cosmopolitan Student Club at UNC, where, in l969, he played a significant role through the UNC Office of the Provost to the ending of the Vietnam War and its scourge to the American universities’ infrastructure.