On 11 March, following a declaration of neutrality by army leadership, pro-opposition soldiers from the CAPSAT Army Corps of Personnell and Administrative and Technical Services) stormed the army headquarters and forced the army chief of staff to resign.
Interestingly, while it calls for strong US climate policies, the declaration is really about the power of leadership: "Just as America rose to the great challenges of the past and came out stronger than ever, we have to confront this challenge, and we have to win," it states.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted in 1948, elegantly declares that every person "has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests".
If the success of the Bandung conference was boiled down to the charisma of one man, the failure to implement the joint declaration could also be attributed to the absence of leadership.
The process involves a public declaration, proof that the group can cooperate with other regional Islamist militant groups, the nomination of leadership, and the commission of an act of brutality as a symbol of loyalty.
Last-minute U.S. diplomatic efforts to create an international trusteeship for Palestine failed, as did pressure on the Jewish leadership to delay the declaration of a Jewish state.
On the Palestinian side, the negotiating partner, according to the Oslo Accords and the Declaration of Principles of 1993, is the PLO leadership.
"The U.S. is the major culprit for all troubles since Feb. 17," Mr. Samardzic told the state news agency Tanjug, referring to the date of the declaration of independence by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership.
Display a pattern of leadership.
