Uncommon to find leading socio-political analysts requiring sensitivity education (6)
I believe the answer is:
sparse
'uncommon' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'leading socio-political analysts requiring sensitivity education' is the wordplay.
'leading' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letters of 'socio political analysts requiring sensitivity education' is 'SPARSE'.
'to find' is the link.
(Other definitions for sparse that I've seen before include "Thinly dotted about" , "Not much" , "not packed together" , "Thinly distributed" , "Scarce like thinning hair" .)