Lusine Kharatyan is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and the director of the Center for Continuing Education at Yerevan State University. In 2012-2018, Ms. Kharatyan headed DVV International (Institute for International Cooperation of German Adult Education Association) Armenia Country Office. In that capacity she was responsible for the implementation of several multi-phase and multi-component Armenia-Turkey reconciliation projects involving oral history research and adult education. Her research, publication and practical work range from memory politics, education policy, reconciliation and conflict resolution to the issues related to ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. Ms. Kharatyan holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota (2004), General Diploma in Demography from Cairo Demographic Center (2000), and a Diploma with distinction in History/Cultural Anthropology from Yerevan State University (1999).