Monica McWilliams

Monica Mary McWilliams (28 April 1954 –) is a Northern Irish academic, peace activist, human rights defender and former politician in Northern Ireland.

Monica McWilliams in 2022

Quotes

• Leadership needs to have a good value set and it needs to recognize the humanity in the other person; it needs to be pragmatic, but over the years I've discovered chemistry, the personality and if the personalities can work together on opposite sides then you've got the real ingredients of making the proposals work.
  • Highlighting the role of women in peacemaking (2017) Vatican News

• We had suffered enough - 30 years. It was a huge challenge. There was something in it for everyone, but there was pain in it for everyone.
  • Monica McWilliams: 'I was an ordinary woman in an extraordinary time' (31 December 2021) BBC