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Joanne Murphy 🎯Writing in Joanne's Substack.

Another murder of a women and her daughter

I am very privileged to sit on the board of ABCLN’s Women’s Aid in Northern Ireland. During a recent discussion about the inexorable succession of murders of women and girls in the region, our CEO Gillian Robinson made the point that the next women to be killed was walking around. 

She didn’t know that she was next, but perhaps she has a suspicion, a fear. Well, that next women has now been murdered - along with her 8 year old daughter in a ‘murder - suicide’ pattern which has become so familiar to anyone paying attention.

Since 2020, around 30 women have been violently killed in Northern Ireland - a region with a population of approximately 1.9 million, giving Northern Ireland one of the highest rates of female homicide in Western Europe. Many of these deaths have occurred in domestic settings, with the perpetrator commonly a current or former intimate partner or another man known to the victim.

The pattern of these killings reflects wider evidence on gender-based violence. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) statistics show that domestic abuse remains a significant feature of homicide cases, with female victims disproportionately represented among domestic abuse-related killings.

Continue @ Joanne's Substack.

Femicide, Misogyny And Northern Ireland

Joanne Murphy ★ Writing In International Leadership Association.

In the end he was miles ahead. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, is now Member of Parliament for Makerfield in what had been billed as the most consequential UK byelection of all time. 

Burnham is a long stalwart of British Labour politics. A former cabinet minister and Blairite, he withdrew from the national stage 10 years ago, disillusioned and defeated in his campaign for the Labour leadership. Since then, he has remade himself as a local leader — taking on a new mayoralty, placing himself at the center of debates about the UK’s unbalanced regions, and earning himself the Game of Thrones-esque moniker “King of the North.” This political evolution has not come without consequences for the Labour establishment. Burnham gradually became a clear and present danger to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who consistently spiked his attempts to return to Westminster and had his people brief against him.

There is no love lost between the men. But the Labour Party’s catastrophic defeat in last month’s local elections meant that Starmer’s ability to stave off Burnham suddenly ran out of road. When a local MP fell on his sword to create a byelection, Burnham’s candidacy could no longer be denied.

Continue @ ILA.

Popularity, Popularism And Revolving Doors At 10 Downing Street

Joanne Murphy ★ Writing In International Leadership Association.

When a knife attack in Belfast sparked riots inflamed by outside "influencers," it exposed an emerging leadership challenge: who manages the bad actors profiting from division? Drawing on new place leadership research this post examines what leading a divided community actually demands.

For anyone who has seen (or even glimpsed) the footage of the recent knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland (NI) on Monday, there is something truly horror inducing about what happened on that street. It was grotesque — even in the context of a place with a history of unspeakable brutality through 30 years of civil conflict known as “the Troubles.” 

Of course, far more people will now have seen this awful event — thanks to its dissemination on social media by very many people — including Elon Musk. Musk is a billionaire who never encountered a dangerous situation he couldn’t make worse. His voice and many others, largely from outside NI, have been loud in encouraging protests and mass deportations of “migrants.” A lot of these people seemed to have a sketchy understand of where Belfast is, or the constitutional status of NI as part of the United Kingdom, but not part of Great Britain.

Continue @ ILA.

Riots In Belfast, Place Leadership Post Conflict (And Why Elon Musk Can Take A Hike)

Joanne Murphy ★ Writing in Leading Questions.

It is, I suppose, the topic of the day - and the days to come until he inevitably goes. The Mandelson stuff is bad enough, but I suspect that the investigative trawl of messages and communications with Labour colleagues will be pretty awful. Add that to the by-election and the local elections and its less death by a thousand cuts, and more firing squad territory. 

For anyone who is interested in leadership, Starmer is kind of fascinating. I (like many in the Labour party, I suspect) have considered him a decent guy who may be a bit of a vacuum but might get things done in a tedious technocratic way. Hadn’t everyone had enough of the psychodrama of Johnson anyway? ‘Time the grown ups etc’. It really hasn’t worked out like that.

What has always intrigued me about Starmer isn’t actually related to his political rise in the last number of years but activity at an earlier point in his career. I did my PhD on the process of organisational change which saw the RUC become the PSNI - with all the attendant political, institutional and leadership drama around that. 

Starmer Is Toast

Sage Journals ✎ Written by Joanne Murphy. 

Abstract

When in 1998, the historic Belfast/Good Friday Agreement marked the end of the 30-year violent Northern Ireland conflict often referred to as the ‘Troubles’, many commentators regarded it as the culmination of the life’s work of one man: John Hume. 

Hume was seen by many as a man of peace, but for others he was a trojan horse for violent Irish nationalism. 

This paper explores these contradictions through the lens of liminality and argues that central to Hume’s ability to create change in a schismogentic environment of conflict was his own ‘inbetweenness’: a leader of nationalism, but not a nationalist, a believer in non-violence, who engaged actively with men of violence, an MP elected to a British parliament, who worked hand in hand with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. 

In doing so it proposes a typology of five liminal leadership approaches which allowed for the untangling of the conflict over time: Reframing the Problem; Stakeholder Cultivation; Opening Linguistic Space; Practicing Disruption; and Acceptance of Sacrifice. 

This paper makes three contributions: to our understanding of leaders who inhabit and utilise liminal spaces, to leadership approaches in zero sum environments including those riven by ‘wicked’ conflicts, and to an understanding of Hume himself and his legacy.

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Leadership, Liminality, And ‘Wicked’ Conflicts: John Hume And The Untangling Of The Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’

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