HOLDING Space for collaboration and critical conversations

 

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW: A VIRTUAL TALK STORY SERIES

The Institute for Climate & Peace is launching a second webinar series, The Day After Tomorrow. This series turns to the methods and framework of futures thinking — a process by which individuals and communities can imagine and devise a more peaceful and sustainable future. As our co-founder, Maxine Burkett says, “The day after tomorrow is actually quite beautiful.” This series brings together the forward-facing perspectives of experts and though leaders in the ares of futurism, climate, and peacebuilding.

  • Episode 1: “Becoming a Futurist: How to Co-Create Our Futures” with futurist and systems-thinker, Dr. Aubrey Yee.

  • Episode 2: “A Pathway to Peace: Ideas for Advancing Climate-Resilient Futures” with John Paul Lederach and Maxine Burkett - WATCH HERE

  • Episode 3: “Pasifika Futures for Hawaiʻi Teens” with Pasifika futurist, Greg Loui.

  • Episode 4: “Collapsed Futures Dream-Tank” with Dr. Keolu Fox. This particular event was part of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy’s “15 Days of Remembering Katrina.” Click here for more information.

    Stay tuned for future episodes!

ACTIONING POSITIVE PEACE FOR CLIMATE RESILIENT FUTURES

The Institute for Climate and Peace and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) held a virtual gathering to announce its partnership, the launch of IEP’s 2020 Global Peace Index, and highlight an upcoming interactive series to inspire communities to build climate resilience and positive peace amidst global uncertainty.

To watch the full recording of this webinar, click here.

BUILDING A BELOVED COMMUNITY: A VIRTUAL TALK STORY SERIES

The Institute for Climate & Peace with collaboration from Ceeds of Peace and the Matsunaga Institute for Peace launched a virtual series featuring conversations and interactive, online workshops exploring the theme of Building a Beloved Community with some of the Hawaiʻi community’s most devoted peacebuilders, innovators, and changemakers.

To watch the full recordings of select episodes, click on the links below:

  • Episode 1: “Talk Story with Aunty Puanani Burgess & Maya Soetoro” - WATCH HERE

  • Episode 2: “Where Are You Planted?: Exploring COVID-19 Quarantine Through Poetry”

  • Episode 3: “Empathy Circles with Gwen Yi and the Tribeless Team”

  • Episode 4: “The Climate is Changing, So Are We: Youth Leadership in Times of Crisis” - WATCH HERE

CULTURAL HUMILITY: VISITING THE EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA

The ICP team visited the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, Alabama.Here, we learned about Montgomery’s vast and tumultuous history of social justice and worked together to apply our experience to guide ICP’s mission and future work.

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WE ARE NOT CLIMATE REFUGEES: NAVIGATING CHANGE & BUILDING PEACE BETWEEN HAWAIʻI AND MICRONESIA

The partnership of the Institute for Climate & Peace, Ceeds of Peace, Waiwai Collective, Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, and We Are Oceania presented its first in a series of events to explore the intersection of climate change and peace. This first event was inspired by a key question: How can we in Hawaiʻi be more accepting, compassionate, and peaceful partners and hosts to our neighbors and newer migrants from Micronesia, whose homes are imperiled due to climate change?

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PANEL DISCUSSION: PRESIDENT ANOTE TONG

ICP’s Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Maxine Burkett, facilitated a conversation with Climate Warrior: His Excellency, President Anote Tong of Kiribati. The space provided a critical opportunity for community members to engage in productive dialogue around local climate impacts and learn from one of the first leaders in advocating for a more climate-resilient future. 

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PANEL DISCUSSION: MARGINS OF THE SEA

ICP’s two Co-Founders, Maxine Burkett and Maya Soetoro-Ng, participated in a panel presentation on Climate Change & Social Justice with a focus on climate change crises and solutions. The panel is part of an annual series that values peace, greater global awareness and environmental stewardship from the perspective of arts and culture. Part of the conversation included highlights of ICP’s work to advance peace, greater diversity of ideas and achievable actions. “Worse than climate denial is climate despondency!”

BRIDGING THE FIELDS: CLIMATE AND PEACE STRATEGY SESSION

ICP engaged 55 of Hawaii’s foremost experts in the fields of peacebuilding and conflict transformation,  indigenous and place-based knowledge, and climate resilience at a day-long strategy session on the links between global change and peace at local, national, and international levels.