PeaceWorks
facilitation Dialogue Training PeacebuildingNoelene Nabulivou
Noelene Nabulivou is from Fiji and Australia. She works within and across multiple groups, networks and movements of squatter and informal settlement women; sex workers; lesbian, trans and queer women; young pacific feminists; women prisoners and ex-prisoners; women’s human rights defenders and peacebuilders, since the mid 1980s. Noelene is coordinator of feminist community based organisation ‘Women’s Action for Change’ (WAC) since 2004, but is currently on leave of absence as gender adviser to the Australia/Fiji Community Justice Program. Noelene also contributes to the ‘Peaceworks Collective’, ‘Safe Haven’ housing rights initiative for girls leaving state care facilities, ‘Yalewa Power’ sex worker collective, ‘Young Pacific Feminists’ movement, the FWRM ‘ELF’ program, ‘Vanuatu Peace Dialogue Group’, as well as a growing Fiji informal settlement movement involving the ‘Peoples Community Network’; ‘Jittu, Nakelo, Narere and Lakena Informal Settlement Women’s Group’. She is on the AWID 08 International Planning Committee.
Noelene has an undergraduate degree from University of New England, Australia in International Community Development and Peacebuilding, and won the 2001 Education, Health and Professional Studies Faculty Prize. She has a Diploma in Community Arts Management and is a wellknown Pacific workshop facilitator, trainer and community educator, with experience and skills developed in diverse spaces in rural, remote and urban Pacific, coupled with growing regional and international advocacy and speaking engagements.
