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The Navy shares updates on fuel tank degassing operations at Red Hill; HPR reporter Catherine Cluett Pactol shares the experience of a Molokaʻi resident who joined flotilla to feed Palestinian families; Postdoctoral researcher Josh Krozier explains new study on 2018 Kīlauea activity; Widow of novelist Michael Crichton talks about his new book set against the backdrop of an erupting Maunaloa

The Conversation spoke to Miemie Wynn Bird with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and Jue Jue Min Thu, president of the Myanmar Association of Hawaiʻi, about Myanmar's long-running civil war — and humanitarian efforts to help refugees caught in the crossfire.

As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, Ukrainian college student Max Zabolotny is in Hawaiʻi on a brief stop after attending a conference in Washington, D.C. He attended Kalani High School on Oʻahu during the 2018-2019 school year.

Violence in Gaza continues to make the mission of humanitarian workers difficult. The Conversation caught up with Ann Wright, a retired Army colonel and former diplomat, as she made her way across Turkey.

The Hawaiʻi State Senate has become the first state legislative body in the country to adopt a resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

This week marks two years since the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Conversation spoke with a local group about why Hawaiʻi residents should pay attention.

The Conversation talked with Maya Soetoro from the University of Hawaiʻi's Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the nonprofit Ceeds of Peace, as well as Punihei Lipe with the UH Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office about ways to navigate these emotionally charged times.

Vaimoana Niumeitolu is a former Hawaiʻi resident who lives in New York. She studied painting at Yale University and has murals in the U.S. and around the world. Murals have historically functioned as artwork that reflects the lives and dreams of ordinary people, which is why the 13 murals she painted in the West Bank and Jordan are particularly relevant today.

HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol checks in with the survivors of the Maui fires who continue to look for housing; a University of Hawaiʻi hydrologist discusses an ongoing program that offers free water testing five months after the Maui fires; a Jewish community on Kauaʻi makes and delivers jewelry to Israeli refugees impacted by the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The Kauai Jewish Center recently sent a care package of Hawaiian-themed jewelry to refugees taking shelter in Jerusalem's Olive Tree Hotel. The Conversation talked to Rabbi Michoel Goldman about the symbolic gift and his thoughts on the conflict.