Ohana Arts will unveil a brand new, never before seen tour-ready version of Peace On Your Wings, featuring new songs, a new and improved script, and Japanese translations this April 1st-3rd at Mamiya Theatre! Peace On Your Wings is a new musical inspired by the life of Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year old girl who died from leukemia caused by radiation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. She became famous for folding over a thousand paper cranes to fulfill an old Japanese legend that would grant one wish to anyone who would fold a thousand cranes. Ohana Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to promote peace and world friendship through the universal language of the arts. Click here for more information on the musical: Peace On Your Wings.
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Ku’ikahi Mediation Center News
The nonprofit Ku´ikahi Mediation Center announced receipt of a $5,000 grant from the Cooke Foundation, Ltd., that will support the Center’s Peer Mediation Elementary School Pilot Project. The Pilot Project develops peacemakers in East Hawai´i schools by teaching conflict resolution and prevention skills to students. During the 2015-16 school year to date, over 100 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders have been trained as peer mediators at Hawaii´i Academy of Arts & Sciences, Kea´au, Kapiolani, Keonepoko, Laupahoehoe, and Mountain View elementary schools.
Mediation Center of the Pacific will be holding the following events: Elder Mediation and Family Conference Training on April 2 and 9, 2016, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on both days, at the Kukui Center, 245 N. Kukui Street; Civil Rights Mediation Training in conjunction with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission (HCRC) on Thursday May 12th, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Kukui Center, 245 N. Kukui Street. The HCRC staff will review the applicable laws and criteria that make a case appropriate for the HCRC, and how appropriate cases are referred to MCP for mediation. MCP staff will review important points relating to the mediation of HCRC referred cases; Under the Mediation Moon Fundraiser on Saturday, May 7, 2016, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm at the Hawaii Convention Center. Enjoy fabulous food, wine, camaraderie, and a silent auction. This year’s honorees are Rick Blangiardi of the Hawaii News Now and Dennis Francis of the Honolulu Advertiser. To purchase tickets contact mcpadmin@mediatehawaii.org. Mediation Challenges Workshop Pau Hana, Friday, June 3, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm at the Kukui Center, 245 N. Kukui Street. A pau hana event open to all mediators to share their experiences. Accelerated Divorce Mediation Training, July 15-16 and July 22-23, at the Kukui Center, 245 N. Kukui Street. This Accelerated Divorce Mediation Training is specifically designed for attendees who are already familiar with family law and the divorce process. Advanced Mediation Training, September 29-30 and October 1, at the Kukui Center, 245 N. Kukui Street. Sharpen skills and expand tools for adapting the basic model of mediation to different complex situations. There will be many guest experts presenting in a variety of new areas! To reserve a seat for training events contact Nathan at nathan@mediatehawaii.org.
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Learn tips and strategies for resolving disputes through mediation from Hawaii’s top mediators. SPEAKERS: Bruce McEwan, Ph.D., President of the Mediation Center of the Pacific, Lisa Jacobs, Esq., founder of Better Way Divorce, also known as Pono Divorce, Gary Grimmer, Esq., Gary G. Grimmer & Associates, Judge Victoria S. Marks, (Ret.). MODERATED BY: Dick Mosher, Esq., Anderson Kill Date/time: March 30, 2016, from 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm HSBA Conference Room 1100 Alakea Street Suite 1000 Honolulu, HI 96813 Licensed Hawaii attorneys may attend this seminar for 1 CLE credit. This seminar is FREE to members of YLD, ADR section and ACR-Hawaii. Seminar is limited to 45 participants click here to register
On April 5, 2016, The Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, in partnership with Accord 3.0 and the Public Policy Center, will host a half day skills workshop entitled “Communicating Complex Issues: Listening Before You Speak.” This workshop will focus on communication of scientific and technical information that affects communities. Often those types of issues involve public policy questions. How can you share your information with the community in a way that will lead to productive discussions? What is the best way to engage with the community? When you are talking to individuals, what techniques can you use to promote respectful and meaningful conversation? You will leave this workshop with answers. With presentations from Elizabeth Kent, Peter Adler, Dawn N.S. Chang and Keith Mattson from Accord3.0 Network (strategic public policy consultants); and Barbara Hastings, Barbra Pleadwell, and Ashley Kerkiewicz from Hastings & Pleadwell: A Communications Company, participants will develop tools to better engage communities, address culturally sensitive issues, engage in respectful and meaningful dialogue, and address issues management in the age of the digital. The skills workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 5 2016 at the UH Campus Center from 8am to 12:30pm. For more information, please visit http://tinyurl.com/MATSUNAGAWORKSHOP. To register, please visit https://www.uhbooks.hawaii.edu/conference/cci2016.asp
New Voices – 2016 – Calling all Conflict Specialists newly entering the field Juried selection for featured presentation at the 2016 ACR Annual Conference Exciting New Feature of the Conference The 2016 conference to be held in October in Baltimore will feature seven “New Voices” to present in “prime time” on the conference schedule. This year’s conference organizers are reaching out across the globe to hear from students and new practitioners & researchers in the field. What we want to feature An area of research done by the presenter and which will engage our diverse membership in thinking in new ways or which would potentially inform the practice of our members. The presentation will feature highlights and illustration of what was learned. A unique project or area of practice in which the presenter was engaged. The presentation may either give the rationale and highlights of the project or it may demonstrate some aspect of the work that can make it “come to life” for the audience. The jury panel is looking for exciting practice or research that will enhance the knowledge and practice of our diverse membership. The panel will select the 12 minute presentations based on both substance and presentation. Additional opportunity The conference presentation will also be videoed and featured on the ACR website. Additionally, a select number of submissions that were not selected for presentation at the conference will be invited to submit a video for the website. Who is eligible to apply All current or recent students in programs specializing in conflict resolution or interdisciplinary programs in which conflict studies are an integral part may apply. Practitioners who may not have been students in certificate or degree programs but have done other forms of training and have entered the field in the last five years are…
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News from the Virtual Mediation Lab
Who in the world is interested in online mediation? The answer might just surprise you. According to Google, the mediators, mediation trainers, and ADR practitioners who visit our Virtual Mediation Lab website because they are interested to learn more about online mediation live in many different countries. Source: Google Analytics Virtual Mediation Lab is an online mediation project sponsored by the Association for Conflict Resolution Hawaii Chapter. For more information about the Virtual Mediation Lab, please visit here.
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Mediation Center of the Pacific News
The latest issue of The Mediation Center of the Pacific’s “The Center Letter” is out! Please click on this link to read the full January 2016 edition and learn more about MCP’s plans for the new year: JANUARY2016CENTERLETTER
*Article originally published at Mediate.com. See the original article here. by Giuseppe Leone December 2015 During Cyberweek 2015, an annual conference on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), I attended a webinar titled “The African Union and Prospects of ODR in Africa”. Ijeoma Ononogbu, Morenike Obi-Farinde and Ayo Kusamotu, three attorneys and ADR practitioners in Nigeria, presented the challenges and opportunities for ODR in their continent. In short, the good news is that more and more people in Africa now use every day mobile devices (e.g. iPad, iPhone, Android tablet or smart phone) in their home or office. The bad news is that only few people know what ODR means, and how it can help them resolve disputes quickly and inexpensively. During the webinar Q&A session, I made some comments related to online mediation – one form of ODR and a field that I have some experience in, having run hundreds of online mediation simulations in 9 languages with mediators from 30 countries. I pointed out to the webinar presenters that, in my view: >>If the idiom “Seeing is Believing” applies to Africa as well, it is much better to show what online mediation means and how it works – rather than just talk about it. >> Online mediation should be shown in as many languages (or dialects) as possible. In Nigeria, for example, in addition to English, their “official” language, there are three other major languages: Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. A few days after Cyberweek, during a video conference with Morenike Obi-Farinde and three other Nigerian mediators interested in online mediation, we came up with a 2-step plan. STEP 1 – I will set up, run and video record an online mediation simulation of a commercial case in English, with the participation of 3 mediators playing the mediator’s and the parties’…