Upcoming and Past Events | The Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution (MIPCR) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Annual International Peace Day/Constitution Day Event - 9/20 (pdf)
Book Signing: Declaring War - 10/18 (Event PDF )
In his book, author Brien Hallett, faculty at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace, offers a detailed analysis of the declarations of 1812, 1898, and the War Powers Resolution of 1973, to demonstrate the extent of the organizational and moral incapacity of the Congress to declare war. This book invokes Carl von Clausewitz's dictum that "war is policy" to explain why declarations of war are an integral part of war and proposes two possible remedies – a constitutional amendment or, alternatively, a significant reorganization of Congress. It offers a comprehensive historical, legal, constitutional, moral, and philosophical analysis of why Congress has failed to check an imperial presidency.

Special Peace Day/Constitutional Day Event - 9/20
Is Climate Change a Threat To World Peace?: Understanding Climate Vulnerability and the Challenge of Climate-Induced Migration
Maxine Burkett, Associate Professor of Law & Director Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP)
3:30 pupus; 4:00-5:30 talk @ Richardson School of Law, CR2 (event flier)
Co-sponsored by the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the Richardson School of Law
- View event resource page
Special Presentation - 9/10
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Featuring Siegfried Ramler, EWC Senior Education Fellow and Carole Petersen, Director of MIPCR, UH Manoa
5 p.m. reception; 5:30 - 7 p.m. film and presentation
East-West Center Gallery, Burns Hall
Co-sponsored by the East West Center, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution; Pacific Asian Affairs Council; Friends of EWC
Special Presentation - 9/6
Surrogacy: A Human Right? A Look at Article 23 of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Lindsey Coffey, Ropes & Gray Fellow, MIPCR, UH Manoa
September 6, 2011 @ UH Manoa - pdf 200kb
July 26, 2011 @ Hawaii State Capitol Building

2011 Spring Graduation and Award Ceremonies
Can an arms race in space be avoided? (April 6) - pdf 700kb
Nonviolent Resistance as a Force for Social Change with Arun Gandhi - Event Videos
Available Online: JSGS Lecture with Bruce Barnes – March 3, 2011 - "Harmonizing North American (Canada/US) Foreign Policies: Cultural Factors, Conflict Resolution and the Rule of Law"
2011 Hookuikahi Honoring Queen Liliuokalani, Martin Luther King, and Gandhi - Short address on behalf of The Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (pdf 50kb)
Martin Luther King Jr. showed the way toward building a community of respect by Brien Hallett (Article online @ http://www.staradvertiser.com)

Words of War, Lessons of Peace: A Multigenerational Symposium for Peacemaking - Event Videos
Make Agent Orange History (October 11) - Event page
Torture, National Security, and Accountability - Event Videos
Download the Peace Day Event Flier (pdf 1.1MB)

20 Students Graduate in Spring 2010 from Matsunaga Institute - Read more about this celebratory event
Trafficking of Women - April 28, 2010, Carole Petersen - University of Illinois
UN - Rights of Persons with Disabilities - April 10-11th, 2010 - Program (pdf 100kb)
China’s Burgeoning Internet - February 10th, 2010 - Event .pdf (200kb) - Presentation Video

Nuclear Weapons: Is Abolition Possible? - (October 15, 2009) - Event .pdf (100kb) - Presentation Video
Peacemaking and the Rights of Children - (2009-11-21) - Event .pdf (300kb)
Cosponsor of the United Nations Week Human Rights Film Festival (2009-10-13) - .pdf (150kb)
Terrorism, Security and The Culture of Fear (2009-04-23) - .pdf (40kb)
Hong Kong and China: Successful Autonomy? (2009-03-12) - .pdf (100kb)
Gun Control and the Right to Bear Arms: A Debate on the Impact of District of Columbia v. Heller (2009-03-09) - .pdf (80kb)
Atomic Timeline to Abolition (2009-02-12) - .pdf (130kb)

Conflict, Culture and Mediation in the Asian Pacific (2008-10-03) - .pdf (100kb)
Crisis Negotiation presented by the Honolulu Police Department (2008-09-24) - .pdf (90kb)
Peace is a Verb: Fulfilling the Vision of Spark Matsunaga (2008-09-19) - .pdf (70kb)
Civil Rights and Language Access (2008-09-15) - .pdf (100kb)
Pacific Indigenous Dialogue on Faith, Peace, Reconciliation and Good Governance (2008-08-26) - .pdf (680kb)
Ho'oponopono (2008-04-18) - .pdf (30kb)
The Ombudsman Office: What Does It Do? (2008-03-18) - .pdf (100kb)
Promoting & Conducting Deliberative Dialogues on Public Issues (2008-03-14) - .pdf (1.7b)
Viva La Peace: 22nd Annual Hawai'i State Wide Peer Mediation Conference (2008-03-06) - .pdf (2mb)
Dissent: Voices of Conscience (2008-03-05) - .pdf (100kb)
The Long History of Civil Rights in America (2008-02-20) - .pdf (120kb)

Lessons from the Ok Tedi Mine: Environmental Dispute Resolution in Papua New Guinea (2007-12-23) - .pdf (30kb)
Promoting Peace at Sea: The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (2007-11-14) - .pdf (30kb)
First Global Nonkilling Leadership Forum (2007-11-01) - .pdf (440kb)
What Can Hawai'i Bring to Peacemaking? (2007-09-21) - .pdf (50kb)
Treatment of Guantanamo Detainees (2007-09-17) - .pdf (90kb)
Alternative Futures and Mediation: Challenges Full Speed Ahead! (2007-03-05) - .pdf (20kb)
Korea - Japan Security Issues (2007-02-16) - .pdf (120kb)
Online Mediation Tools for Face-to-face Mediators (2007-02-01) - .pdf (90kb)
Iraq Policy Options (2007-01-24) - .pdf (120kb)

Mediator Education: Models, Cases, Goals and Approaches - Perspectives from Denmark (2006-10-18) - .pdf (30kb)
Nonproliferation and Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea (2006-09-28) - .pdf (120kb)
Hiroshima and Peace (2006-09-21) - .pdf (110kb)
NSA Eavesdropping (2006-09-14) - .pdf (120kb)
Peace in Pieces: Afghanistan and the Search for Peace (2006-08-24) - .pdf (300kb)