The David O Mckay Center for Intercultural Understanding
President David O. McKay, when founding BYU Hawaii, had a vision that
"from this school will go men and women whose influence will be felt for good toward the establishment of peace internationally."
That vision has become BYUH's vision. BYUH exists to "assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life and in their efforts to promote world peace and international brotherhood."
The David O. McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding helps BYUH students, faculty, staff and alumni fulfill that prophecy by functioning as a cross-cultural peacebuilding laboratory that educates BYUH students, faculty, staff and alumni with the theoretical and practical tools they need to be leaders and peacebuilders and sponsors practical community building and cross cultural leadership opportunities in the university, community and the world