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Tui Nicola Clery graduated with a PhD in Pacific Studies & Social Anthropology from the University of Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2013. Her thesis is entitled ‘The Art of Peace: Performative and Arts-based Peace Practices in Contemporary Fiji.’ It explores how artists, activists and civil society organisations are using arts-based processes as tools for communicating messages of peace, and initiating dialogue within and between diverse communities. Tui’s publications include; (2014) ‘The F Word; challenging gender norms, performing possibilities, and celebrating lesbian relationships in contemporary Fiji’ in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific; (2014) ‘Extending the talanoa; weaving Pacific and performative methods for peace research in contemporary Fiji’ in Fairburn-Dunop, P. & Coxon, E. (eds) (date?) Talanoa: Building the Pasifika Research Community; and (2011) ‘Women’s Collective Creativity – Playful and Transgressive Processes for Building Peace in Fiji’ in The Journal of Pacific Studies.