A Research Agenda to Illuminate the Blackbox of School Leadership in Post-Conflict Contexts

This article focuses on the endeavours of a group of doctoral researchers in the Graduate School of Education at The University of Western Australia who have been investigating primary school leadership as understood and practised in diverse post-conflict contexts. Accordingly, the exposition first presents a rationale for conducting research into school level leadership in such contexts. Consideration is then given to summarising a corpus of work that has been generated by some members of the research group in question. In particular, ‘snapshots’ are presented of research projects undertaken relating to Rwanda, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Serbia. Finally, attention is given to identifying potential future directions for research that have been prompted by the work as a whole.