Meet Hon. Ms. Arieta Koila Costello
Photo caption: Hon. Mr. Vipin Maharaj presenting token of appreciation to Ms. Costello during one of the BDTP last year.
Meet Hon. Ms. Arieta Koila Costello. Ms. Costello is the Peace Building Advisor to UNA Fiji. In this role, she provides her expert advice and facilitation on all matters relating to peacebuilding to the Association.
Ms. Costello went to school at Veiuto Primary and Suva Grammar School. She has qualifications in Social Work (BSW) 1992 from the University of Queensland, Post Graduate Diploma in Social Policy and Administration (USP) 2002, Master of Arts in Peacebuilding and Conflict Tranformation (2005), Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, Professional Diploma in Business Leadership (USP), 2013.
For the last 30 years, she has worked for the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre, ECREA, and the Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding. She also did several consultancies on behalf of the NGOs she worked with then in the recent 6 years as an independent consultant for KKasa Consultancies. She has worked with UNDP, UNOHCR, PTC, SPC, PIFS, Dialogue Fiji, Fiji Women’s Forum, ANZ, KPMG, Digicel, Vodafone, Westpac, Howards Law, to name but a few key organizations. Overseas, she has taught classes in Peacebuilding in Women’s Leadership, Leading Healthy Organisations, Training/Design and Facilitation, Trauma Healing and Awareness at the Eastern Mennonite University and locally at the Pacific Theological College and GKI in West Papua.
Ms. Costello has provided services that included designing and facilitating processes for strategic thinking and action, discussing issues, team building, conflict resolution, stress management, and trauma healing. She is also an on-call counselor for Digicel, Vodafone, ANZ, SPC.
Ms. Costello is passionate about working to build healthy relationships in groups, individually, and with the environment.
When she was young she liked collecting hand-carved soap, from her 17th birthday she started collecting crystals which she does to this day. She is a mother to Shaniah and Kevin.
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