Lusine Kosakyan

Lusine joined IPP team in 2018 as a Research Fellow in the field of Violence Against Women. She is responsible for preparing policy reports in the field of domestic violence and providing updates to the toolkit for monitoring and evidence-based advocacy by civil society organization in Armenia.  Her academic background is in European Studies (MA) with specialisation in Human Rights and Democratization  from Yerevan State University, with a mobility semester at Belarus State University. She earned her bachelor degree in Oriental Studies with specialisation in Iranian Studies from Yerevan State University. Lusine has work experience in several women human rights organizations (such as, Society Without Violence (2014),  Women in Black of Armenia (2016). She interned in Helsinki Committee of Armenia (2016) and International Red Cross Community (2018). Lusine is a member of Gender Working Group of Cooperation and Development Network (2018) and is an independent researcher in Astra Youth (2015).