The objective of this research is to collect and analyze post-revolutionary rhetoric (including homophobic) related to sexual and gender issues and discursive means available in Armenia, which are being used to target human rights defenders, activists working on women’s and LGBT issues, progressive civil society, aiming at shrinking their space of action, trying to turn this theme into a weapon...
“The Postprotest Context in Armenia: Divergent Pathways for Civic Actors” article, written by our colleagues Armine Ishkanian and Sona Manusyan, was published in the new report of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled “After Protest: Pathways beyond Mass Mobilization”. In the chapter they discuss the pathways of civil society development in Armenia since 2018...
The research demonstrates how progressive civil society groups became the avant-garde of the Armenian revolution by acting as an inspiration and role model for larger social groups by popularizing various mechanisms and techniques of resistance. While some individuals from these groups became part of the interim government or local self-government bodies shortly after the revolution and were more...
This report is based on Armine Ishkhanyan’s extensive qualitative field researches conducted during her three visits to Armenia. The research was assisted by the Socioscope team. The report examines the recent social mobilization of civil society groups in Armenia on environmental issues. In particular, it focuses on organized civil society campaigns against the mining industry in the country...
The collection comprises the analyses of two sociological studies on human rights in Armenia conducted by the Socioscope team, the photos participating in the “Human rights in Camera” photo contest and the subsequent exhibition, as well as the stories behind those photos. The collection is available at Socioscope’s library.