The Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution envisions a university, community and world where the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict are a shared enterprise. We are a multi-disciplinary academic community of scholars, students, practitioners, and visitors who seek to promote peace and conflict resolution through teaching, research, service and application. Our Institute is dedicated to honoring the memory of United States Senator Spark M. Matsunaga and implementing his hope that “every student enrolled in Hawai'i's public university system will be exposed to peace studies.” In order to promote cross cultural communication and peacemaking leadership, we are committed to building on Hawai'i's cultural heritage and island values: aloha, mutual aid and respect, sense of community, and caring for the land. Our goal is to: * Educate and train professional and future leaders in applied peacemaking and conflict resolution. * Encourage innovative thinking to develop collaborative processes that engage a range of stakeholders in problem-solving. * Engage students, through scholarship and practice, in addressing contemporary problems within Hawai'i, the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S., and the world. * Use our strategic Pacific location to bring people together in an intellectually safe space for an exchange of diverse perspectives and ideas.