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13<br />

Distinguished<br />

Enterprise<br />

Fellowship Award<br />

2014-15<br />

Professor<br />

Monica McWilliams<br />

Belfast/Jordanstown –<br />

Monday 15 December, 11.00am<br />

Monica McWilliams, Professor of Women’s<br />

Studies in the School of Criminology, Social<br />

Policy and Politics and a core member of the<br />

Transitional Justice Institute has undertaken<br />

extensive research in the field of domestic<br />

violence with her work leading to the first<br />

cross-cutting government strategy on<br />

domestic violence in the UK. She is currently<br />

assisting international organisations in<br />

humanitarian disasters and conflict regions,<br />

developing practice and policy on the<br />

inclusion of women.<br />

Professor McWilliams has acted as an expert<br />

advisor to the Afghanistan High Peace<br />

Council, the Syrian Opposition Coalition and<br />

to civil society organisations throughout the<br />

Middle East and Africa. She has undertaken<br />

work for the United Nations and was recently<br />

engaged in a high-level meeting with UN<br />

Special Envoys from around the world.<br />

She has been an advisor on conflict<br />

resolution for a range of influential bodies<br />

and sits on the Board of Trócaire. She is<br />

a member of the Governing Council of<br />

Interpeace, based in Geneva where she<br />

recently addressed a UN International<br />

Peace Day event.<br />

Appointed by the Minister of Justice as an<br />

Oversight Commissioner for Prison Reform<br />

in Northern Ireland, she will be the Visiting<br />

Professor in Human Rights at the University<br />

of Chicago during spring semester, 2015.

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