Partners in Fiji
The Citizens' Constitutional Forum 
The Citizens' Constitutional Forum (CCF) was set up in 1995, initially to create opportunities for reflection and well-informed discussion of constitutional matters among Fiji’s citizens. Its members played a critical role in promoting the official constitutional review that led to the 1997 Constitution. They held workshops in urban and rural areas throughout the islands to inform public debate and promote learning from international experiences on constitutional issues. They also sought to promote civil society and multiracial consensus as a counterweight to the communal orientation of Fiji’s political parties. CCF have increasingly acted as a watchdog on constitutional matters. During the May 2000 coup, they mobilized nationally and internationally to restore the 1997 Constitution. A landmark legal battle forced Fiji’s government to comply.
CCF continues to champion the constitutional rights of Fiji’s citizens, and campaigns to ensure politicians and public bodies abide by international agreements and obligations. Since the December 2006 coup it has been working to promote a constructive return to democracy with a focus on promoting inclusive dialogue.
CCF works closely with Fiji’s NGO Coalition on Human Rights in promoting alternatives to violence and awareness among all Fiji’s communities about their rights.
“With the democratic rupture that began on 19 May 2000, CCF has been compelled to defend constitutionality and legality. Fiji's people and future generations must not suffer at the hands of individuals and groups who resort to illegal and immoral means to achieve their ends.”
Rev Akuila Yabaki
The Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding 
The Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding (PCP) is a not-for-profit organization, established by 15 founding members in 2007. Koila Costello-Olsson is the first Director appointed by these founding members. She has had a long peacebuilding history beginning with the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (where she worked for 2 years), along with 6 years as the Peace Programme Co-ordinator with the Fiji based NGO Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy (ECREA).
PCP is based in Suva and offers a range services in areas such as peacebuilding, dialogue facilitation, and conflict analysis and prevention. PCP works with the private, non-government and civil society sectors as well as with government, intergovernmental, regional and international institutions. Recent activities include providing support and facilitation services to Dialogue Fiji (below), and working with the UNDP and the Pacific Theological College on peacebuilding and training initiatives. PCP believes that while the state has the primary role in the prevention and resolution of conflict as a duty to its citizens, it is not its sole preserve.
Dialogue Fiji 
Dialogue Fiji was created in early 2009 by a group of civil society leaders determined to build a dialogue process capable of bringing people from across Fiji’s social and political divides together to dialogue. Dialogue Fiji is directed by a broad based Committee, made up of representatives from civil society organisations including the private sector. This Committee is selected at an annual ‘Citizens Assembly’ – a one-day gathering of up to forty civil society organisations.
The initiative is managed by a full-time Secretariat and since
its inception the initiative has organised numerous dialogue events both at the local divisional and national level. These dialogue events have led to constructive and continued dialogue on divisive issues such as land tenure at the local level and leadership and economic development at the national level.
Dialogue Fiji’s vision is ‘for a Fiji where people respect each others’ differences, and share a common will to build a free, peaceful, and inclusive nation’.
