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Activities of the HRCFS
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Activities of the HRCFS
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The Center provides client-centered as well as public presentations, workshops, or seminars on a wide variety of aspects of futures research. These futures activities identify emerging issues and innovations, help people think through the implications of change for themselves and their organizations, and facilitate visioning processes for long-range planning. The HRCFS has engaged in futures research projects for most Hawaii State agencies and for the Legislature, the Judiciary, and the Office of State Planning. Seminars and workshops have also been offered to public and private agencies in many other American states, and to national organizations such as the Council of State Governors' Policy Agencies, the National Council of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, the Conference of Chief Justices, and the Conference of State Court Administrators. The Center has also conducted seminars and workshops for various government agencies in the American-affiliated Pacific islands, as well as for cities and counties, and many educational, nonprofit, and corporate groups locally, in the U.S. mainland, and in many foreign countries. In cooperation with the Institute for Alternative Futures, the HRCFS was responsible for creating the concept and reality of "judicial foresight"--incorporating futures studies into judicial administrative decision-making. This began with work by the HRCFS with the Hawaii State Judiciary from the 1970s onward. Judicial foresight has now spread to almost all other US State judiciaries, the Federal Judicial Center and several Federal Judicial Circuits, the American Bar Association, and more recently to several judiciaries overseas, primarily in Asia. The State Justice Institute, a US federal agency for state judiciaries, made "Futures and the Courts" one of its major funding categories in part because of work done with and through the HRCFS. In 1995, the World Futures Studies Federation awarded the HRCFS its highest honor for excellence in futures research. In addition, in recognition of the central role the Center has played in the creation and development of futures studies worldwide, Hamilton Library on the UH campus is creating a global futures archives in an annex now under construction. The current Secretariat of the World Futures Studies Federation has agreed to transfer its files to these archives, where they will join those which have already been sent from the McHale Center for Integrative Studies of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the HRCFS, to become a major global site for the history and present of futures studies as an academic discipline and research activity. "Report by HRCFS to Hawaii State Legislature, 2001" / pdf Virginia Scan 1995, (pdf) |
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