Ms. Elena Noel: Chair of the Board of Trustees

Elena Noel has been a Mediator for over 10 years experienced in Community Mediation, Family and homelessness Mediation prevention, and Hate Crimes. Elena has a Postgraduate Diploma in Mediation and Conflict Resolution from the University of London and the Institute of Family Therapy.  

Currently, Elena is the Manager of the Hate Crimes Project at Southwark Mediation Centre. To date she has worked over 400 cases of hate crime often encountering large scale and very volatile situations (racism, homophobia, religious hatred). The Hate Crimes Project has received a number of commendations and awards for Best Practice and excellent service delivery and leadership.  This work has been effective in tackling incidents of repeat re-victimisation, and has been recognised by the Metropolitan Police Service, Home Office, Safer Southwark Partnership, Metropolitan Police Authority – Pan London Race Hate Forum, The Runnymede Trust and others. The work of the Hate Crimes Project has been highlighted in the Runnymede Trust research paper ‘Preventing Racist Violence’ in October 2005 and included in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ‘Toolkit’ launched in February 2006.          

Elena is a trainer in mediation conflict resolution and conflict management and hate crime for other mediation services, and consultant to those involved in research, crime reduction and the wider applicability of mediation and community cohesion. She has been a Neighbourhood Renewal Advisor for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in Conflict Resolution and a university lecturer. She has been involved in the supervision of Post Graduate and Post Doctoral Student Fellowship programme for students interested in conflict and community cohesion from the international community.  

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