{"id":86269,"date":"2018-10-18T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=86269"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:37:30","slug":"promoting-peace-and-conflict-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/18\/promoting-peace-and-conflict-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting peace and conflict resolution at the state capitol"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_86270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86270\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-peace-institute-proclamation.jpg\" alt=\"Smiling people holding a proclamation\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-peace-institute-proclamation.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-peace-institute-proclamation-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathryn Ranney, Sky <span aria-lebel=\"Kauilani\">Kau&#699;ilani<\/span> Chun-Matsukawa, Owen Tamamoto, Joana Marcos Garcia, Robert Lillis, Miriam Robertson, Tracey Wiltgen, Lisa Jacobs, Lisa Nakao, Jos\u00e9 Barzola<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/acrnet.org\/page\/ConflictResDay\">Conflict Resolution Day<\/a> on October 18, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Capitol for proclamation signings by Governor David Ige and Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamations recognized the benefits of peaceful, alternative dispute resolution processes and the work being done by <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s public, private and non-profit organizations. Resolving differences in an inclusive, collaborative way empowers individuals as well as communities to bring together diverse voices and improve decision-making processes.<\/p>\n<p>Attending the event were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peaceinstitute.hawaii.edu\/\">Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution<\/a>\u2019s <strong>Kathryn Ranney, Sky Kau&#8217;ilani Chun-Matsukawa, Joana Marcos Garcia, Miriam Robertson, Tracey Wiltgen<\/strong> and <strong>Jos\u00e9 Barzola<\/strong>; Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa alumni <strong>Owen Tamamoto, Robert Lillis<\/strong> and <strong>Lisa Nakao<\/strong>; and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> attorney Lisa Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict Resolution Day is celebrated every third Thursday in October and was established by the Association for Conflict Resolution to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote awareness of mediation, arbitration, conciliation and other creative, peaceful means of resolving conflict;<\/li>\n<li>Promote the use of conflict resolution in schools, families, businesses, communities, governments and the legal system;<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the significant contributions of (peaceful) conflict resolvers; and<\/li>\n<li>Obtain national synergy by having celebrations happen across the country and around the world on the same day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Conflict Resolution Day, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Capitol for proclamation signings by Governor David Ige and Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[330,9],"class_list":["post-86269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-matsunaga-institute-for-peace","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86269","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=86269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86281,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86269\/revisions\/86281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}