Governor Ige, Mayor Caldwell, and the Honolulu City Council proclaimed October 20, 2016 as CONFLICT RESOLUTION DAY 2016
They encouraged all residents to learn more about conflict resolution practices to promote peaceful and creative resolutions to disputes
They also thanked the Association for Conflict Resolution-Hawai’i Chapter, the Hawai’i State Judiciary Center for Alternative Conflict Resolution, the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Hawai’i State Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, the Mediation Center of the Pacific, Ku’ikahi Mediation Center, Maui Mediation Services, Kaua’i Economic Opportunity, Inc. Mediation Program, and West Hawai’i Mediation Center for promoting peaceful means of resolving differences
Pictured from left to right: Bruce McEwan, Association for Conflict Resolution, Hawai’i Board of Directors (ACR-Hawai’i, BOD) and Mediation Center of the Pacific President; Lisa Nakao, ACR-Hawai’i, BOD and Better Business Bureau of Hawai’i Director of Operations; Tricia Morris, ACR-Hawai’i, BODs and ADR practitioner; Maya Soetoro-Ng, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, UH Manoa Director of Outreach and International Partnerships; Governor David Ige; Tracey Wiltgen, Mediation Center of the Pacific Executive Director and Mediation Centers of Hawai’i Contract Administrator; Lisa Jacobs, ACR-Hawai’i, President and ADR Practitioner; Cecelia Chang, Hawai’i State Judiciary Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution Director; Lynn Murrison, ACR-Hawai’i, BOD and Honolulu Board of Realtors (arbitration, mediation); Anne Marie Smoke, ACR-Hawai’i, BOD and Hawai’i State Judiciary Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution Appellate Mediation Program Administrator. Link to photos with Governor Ige
