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Join the 27th session in the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú's Interdisciplinary Webinar Series, chaired by  Leïla Choukroune, Professor of International Law and Director of the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Thematic Area in Democratic Citizenship, and presented by Dr Hamid Foroughi, Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management at the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Business School.

In this webinar, we contribute to the understanding of the predicaments of othered communities in organizing solidarity in times of disruption. We examine how the leader of a Muslim community organization worked to foster solidarity in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, a tragedy that disrupted the city and intensified long-standing societal divisions. Our findings underscore the role of redemptive narratives-- -- these are Atonement, emancipation, recovery, upward mobility, development – as a catalyst for organizing solidarity by enabling purpose and agency. We further present our study as a specific case of how schematic ‘narrative templates’ can be used in sensegiving process. Our study shows how leadership processes of sense-giving and sensemaking are intertwined. In our case, we showed that redemptive narratives – as specific narrative templates-- were developed during sensemaking process, were then used in leadership sensegiving. This new conceptualisation help explain how leaders sensemaking influences their sensegiving.