Malala Yousafzai Leadership And Leadership

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Introduction
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi
This position paper will enlighten you about Malala Yousafzai, a fourteen year old leader, a girl who lives in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, a third world country. She claims to be a human right activist who’s vision is to achieve peace, by accessing quality education for children especially girls. Malala argues that using young girls for marriage, sex trade and child labor is not civilized. She claimed it was an appalling crime against humanity. A young girl who dared to stand up for herself and other girls . Her public profile opened the doors to some of the greatest challenges of our modern world. This essay will examine Malala’s leadership work, leadership theories, …show more content…

Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speaks says; “Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am”.
Being similar in many ways Malala Yousafzai carries the same spiritual and communal identity and beliefs as the Pashtuns people of Afghanistan. “An important historical figure for Pakistani and Afghan school children in the Pashtun culture is Malalai of Maiwand, for whom Malala Yousafzai is named.” Similar leadership attributes like (1) a belief in oneself, (2) a passion for what you are doing (internally motivated), (3) a love for people, (4) a commitment to the betterment of people.
In Afghanistan Malalai (or Malala) is a legend. “She was a native of Khig, tiny village on the edge of the Maiwand battlefield and the daughter of a Shepard. Both her father and fiancée joined with Ayub’s army in the attack on the British on July 27th 1880. Malalai was there to help tend to the wounded, provide water, and spare weapons. There came a point in the battle where the Afgan army started to lose morale and the tide seemed to be turning in favor of the British. Seeing this, Malalai took off her veil and shouted out: “Young Love! If you do not fall in the battle of Maiwand, By God, someone saves you as a symbol of shame!” This gave many of the Afghan fighters and ghazis a new resolves and they redoubled their efforts. At that moment the leading flag bearer from British fell dead from a bullet. Malalai went forward and held up the flag using her veil singing a

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