Hawai`i Friends of Restorative Justice (HFRJ) is an educational entity that works to help individuals and organizations live cooperatively & peacefully. HFRJ provides education, training, and program development for schools, courts, hospitals, prisons, government agencies, NGOs, and others based on a group’s unique needs for peacemaking and conflict management skill building. HFRJ designs, provides, researches, writes about and publishes the outcomes of its innovative projects to contribute to best practices and evidence-based knowledge about what can help increase peace, civic engagement, healing, and reconciliation for individuals and communities. HFRJ is working to divert social problem-solving from the legal system to community and evidence-based solutions.
HFRJ’s leadership changed in 2022! Leela Bilmes Goldstein, Phd., is the new chairperson and our new vice-chairperson is Ian Crabbe. We thank our former president Rich Turbin, Esq. and vice-president Roger Epstein, Esq., who are remaining on our board to continue helping bring peace and justice to the world.
