Role of Leadership in Preferment of National Cohesion and Solidity: Theoretical Analysis

Abstract

A country without national integration is often implied as the country deprived of social cohesion, sense of nationalism and with a failed socio-politico-economy. In bringing up these values in front, there lies a strong leadership role behind it. Debates started to rise against the distorted and corrupt political structures where there is no national cohesion in the country. Hence, this paper will focus on the challenges and stratagems which the leaders of the country needs to embrace in order to guarantee accountability and the sense of nationalism among the citizens of the country. The strategies and methodologies for the advancement of national integration includes the legal framework, declaration of the transparent political policies, and a resilient platform for the societal transformation of the country. It was found out in the research that the sensitization of the integrated societies of the country basically ensures the sense of uniformity and is known to be the foremost contributor for the cohesion of communities of the nation and its development. If the leaders failed to do so, then this means that there are problems of polarization, self-interest, lack of ideology, weak governing institutions, failure to address the inequalities and injustices, substantial proliferation of militia power and lack of communication channels between the political leaders and citizens of the country. This paper studies and applies a verity of approaches existed in the literature on political science to give an inspective basis for the study of leadership role in regulating and reconciliating the differences among citizens.In this paper, the relationship between the dependent variable of the national cohesion/integration will be analyzed with the role of leadership. Moreover, a qualitative method will be adopted in order to examine the role of leadership in conflict resolving strategies which they adopt for implementation of good governing institutions which could ensure the empowerment of public communities and well-monitored evaluation systems at ground-level to safeguard national integration of the country.