  {"id":165274,"date":"2022-09-15T14:07:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=165274"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:07:12","slug":"uh-ewc-host-pacific-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/uh-ewc-host-pacific-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr>, East-West Center host Pacific leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-2.jpg\" alt=\"5 people sitting and talking\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-165278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastwestcenter.org\/\">East-West Center<\/a> are hosting leaders from Pacific nations September 12&#8211;14 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/pidp.eastwestcenter.org\/2022\/08\/31\/pacific-islands-development-program-to-convene-12th-pacific-islands-conference-of-leaders-in-september\/\">12th Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders<\/a> &ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Puuhonua\">Pu&#699;uhonua:<\/span> The Pacific Way Forward.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The program is hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/pidp.eastwestcenter.org\/\">Pacific Islands Development Program<\/a> at the East-West Center and the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.edu\/cpis\/\">Center for Pacific Island Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"3 people\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-165279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-3-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-3.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> hosted a gathering for Gov. David Ige and American S&#257;moa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders tackled topics including climate change, islander resilience during the pandemic, sustainability and the Pacific diasporas as part of the meetings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-1.jpg\" alt=\"people standing in a circle\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-165277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/system-pacific-islands-conference-leaders-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders tackled topics including climate change, islander resilience during the pandemic, sustainability and the Pacific diasporas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[321,93,10,1538,470,73,9,947],"class_list":["post-165274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-center-for-pacific-islands-studies","tag-climate-change","tag-east-west-center","tag-pacific-island-studies","tag-pacific-islands","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165281,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165274\/revisions\/165281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}