Monalisa Hazarika
Monalisa Hazarika is an intern in the Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control program at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). She holds an MA in Conflict Management and Development and has formerly worked at the Forum on the Arms Trade and SCRAP Weapons.
Her focus is on small arms and organized crime, especially improvised and craft-produced firearms and their trends in illicit manufacture and trade, and previously worked on the correlations between the illicit trafficking of small arms and narco-insurgency in South and Southeast Asia.
She is also interested in the nexus between emerging technologies and conventional weapons, particularly concerning additive manufacturing.
Previously, Monalisa participated in the #Leaders4Tomorrow and #Leaders2Future projects conducted by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs’ Youth4Disarmament programme.
She was invited to present recommendations and practical steps to strengthen diversity in the disarmament field at the “A.I.M (Advocates in Motion) for a Way Forward” event, held on the margins of the first Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2026 RevCon to the NPT in Vienna, and to the UNHQ in New York to present her project “ACROSS THE CHICKEN NECK”, at the 2022 First Committee Side Event.
She is a 2023-24 Emerging Expert of the Forum on the Arms Trade, part of the Emerging Voices Network of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), and a 2023 SIPRI Armament and Disarmament Summer School graduate.