Nonkilling Hawai'i
The Nonkilling Hawai‘i project is envisioned as a working model for global nonkilling that will include research/discovery, education/training, and policy/action. To explore the concept of Nonkilling Hawai‘i as a working model, a group would be assembled to explore Hawai‘i’s killing-related issues which might fall into the falling arenas: suicide, domestic killings, the military, the police and homicide. By drawing together researchers currently doing work in these areas and organizations involved with reducing killing in Hawai‘i, the group can begin to develop an index on the types of killing, the numbers killed, the reasons behind killing as well as the reasons why others opt not to kill – given similar circumstances. As suggested by World Health Organization research, that violence is a preventable disease, it makes sense to invite participation from the Department of Health and UH School of Public Health.
After documenting what works and what does not work in partnership with the Hawai’i network of leaders and researchers involved, the initiative will develop and test potential strategies to train, educate, and affect policy through action to ultimately eliminate killing in Hawai‘i. Appropriate mechanisms to measure impacts of these strategies will be developed to track progress.









