Cover illustration: Hannah Hoang
Design above is from the “Nhà Nha” (Let’s Go Home) project that is a community album dedicated to bringing together Vietnam, its diaspora, and the larger community. We are looking for photo and story contributions that explore “home” as a space of origins, belonging, connection, placemaking, homesickness, and growth. For the Vietnamese community, what does home mean, what has it meant, and what might it be?
About the Conflict and Peace Specialist
The Conflict and Peace Specialist (CAPS) can be a resource that provides a neutral, private, and independent resource to assist the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM) community in navigating conflicts, disputes, or complaints on an informal basis. We serve as a conflict coach, educator, intermediary, mediator, facilitator, information gatherer, or simply as an active listener. The UHM community is welcome to voice concerns, evaluate situations, and identify options on how to proceed.
CAPS is one of the resources available under Mānoa CARES (Campus Awareness, Response, Education and Solutions) that was established with the 2021 reorganization of UHM. This office is a direct report to the Office of Provost at UHM.
Services
Provides direct services and consultation to the UHM community who request to participate in a conflict management process. Work includes coordination and facilitation utilizing progressive techniques that might include conflict coaching, mediation, restorative practices, honest dialogue, and peacebuilding strategies. Such work helps to identify issues, goals and options to address and manage conflict in learning environments.
Peacebuilding Initiatives
Peacebuilding Initiatives are collaborative ways of developing healthy positive relationships via dialogue, cross-cultural understanding, and exploring ways to shift our own perspective to build compassion and empathy within our communities.
