Monalisa Hazarika is a Research Associate at SOAS University of London. She is one of the UN Youth Champions for Disarmament under the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs’ #Youth4Disarmament programme and an emerging voice in conventional arms control and meaningful youth engagement, featuring most recently at a UNGA-ECOSOC Joint Meeting on SALW.

​Her areas of expertise and research focus include small arms and light weapons, especially non-industrial weapons and their trends in illicit manufacture and trade, transnational organized crime, and the proliferation of 3D-printed weapons. She has previously worked at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Forum on the Arms Trade, and the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) in varying capacities. She holds a master’s degree in Conflict Management and Development from the Banaras Hindu University and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from North Eastern Hill University, India. ​