Transitional Justice Institute, Northern Ireland: We are delighted to welcome back Michelle Rouse to our LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights programme.

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Transitional Justice Institute, Northern Ireland

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We are delighted to welcome back Michelle Rouse to our LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights programme. Michelle was last years recipient of the TJI Gender Scholarship and is in her second year. Michelle is a 38 year old political activist and mother of 3, she has been a political party worker (Sinn Fein) from 1998, in a variety of roles including; constituency services management, political advisor to the local MP and MLAs, Special Advisor to the deputy First Minister and Party Head of policy in the north. She has also been a member of the party's negotiating committee. Specific areas of work and expertise have included rights entitlement and advocacy, policing and justice, Assembly legislative procedures, institutional reform and Human Rights and Equality. She has a keen interest in the development of strategies to tackle gender inequalities and promote the empowerment of women, including an enhanced role for women in the conflict resolution process.

Michelle has recently completed her first year of the LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights.
"I could never have envisaged this time last year, the impact that the programme would have. It truly has been a watershed for me and has developed my analytical skills in ways I couldn't have anticipated. Not a day has passed in the intervening 12 months that I haven't encountered a real time application for the course content, whether that be in identifying contextual antecedents for international current affairs or in the course of my day to day work by identifying relevant human rights standards and jurisprudence. Above all, I've found that the experience of the LLM has equipped me with the necessary tools to apply a richer, more critical insight as a policy practitioner , informed by and grounded in international best practice in the field of transitional justice."