Ho Oponoponovo Memo

Naturally, people’s understanding of a particular tradition or culture (e.g. identity) helps the community select the best form of ADR that is most advantageous for the tradition’s practices and belief. Traditions are significant because they are the generational foundations to the lifestyles and customs of people. In addition, this allows humans to identify with one another differently based off of cultural differences; which is formulated, primarily, through the application of their lineage’s practices. In the excerpt entitled, To Set Right: Ho’Oponopono, a Native Hawaiian Way of Peacemaking, Manu Aluli Meyer helps explain and support this claim when he writes about the native Hawaiian way of peacemaking. The native Hawaiian way of peacemaking, Ho’Oponopono, …show more content…
Consequently, when the people of this community seek conflict resolution it is to restore the aforementioned factors and build better understanding relationships between the contending parties. The author affirms: “the purpose of [Ho’Oponopono] is to ensure an ethos of commitment, honesty, privacy, and fairness, and to provide a foundation and structure or the discussions that will follow…for a successful, relationship-center resolution process” (177, Meyer). Due to the fact, that the people of the Ho’Oponopono community uphold the values of unity, love, family, compassion, peace and more to a higher standard than American written law, the people of that community use a resolution separate from the state. For instance, the state of Hawaii might use arbitration as a way to settle disagreement between contending sides. However, arbitration, unlike mediation, does not focus on rebuilding and maintaining the relationships between the two sides, but imposes a “win-lose” system upon the opposing sides. Essentially, further destroying the relationship and bond between the contending