Carlotta Caccia Dominioni

Carlotta is specialising in the nexus of gender, forced migration, and humanitarian protection. With a strong foundation in political science and international cooperation, she brings a multidisciplinary lens to the analysis of violence, displacement, and development in fragile contexts.  

Carlotta holds a Master of Science in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her thesis, titled “Violence against women: the gendered effect of land enclosure in Northern Ghana,” reflects her deep engagement with gender-sensitive research methodologies and intersectional analyses of structural violence. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor's degree in International Science and European Institutions from the Università degli Studi di Milano, where she focused on international and humanitarian law, and explored multilateral disarmament frameworks in her undergraduate thesis.  

Most recently, she completed a professional Master in International Cooperation (Development and Emergencies) at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), where she developed expertise in gender mainstreaming, Protection and Humanitarian Project Cycle Management, conflict sensitivity, and the Do No Harm approach. Her training has been complemented by a series of advanced certifications, including protection in humanitarian action (UNHCR), gender-based violence programming in emergencies (UNFPA), Sphere Standards, and the inclusion of migrants in emergency management (IOM).  In addition to her academic credentials, she has actively contributed to capacity-building efforts in the humanitarian field. 

Notably, she served as a facilitator in workshops on emergency child protection and minimum standards during the 2023 El Niño-related response preparation in Latin America. Her multilingual proficiency—including fluency in Italian, English, and Spanish further enables her to operate across diverse cultural and institutional environments.  Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, migration, and protection in crisis-affected settings. She is particularly drawn to participatory and arts-based research methodologies that center the voices of women and girls in displacement. Passionate about knowledge co-production and the transformative potential of qualitative research, she aims to bridge academic inquiry with frontline humanitarian practice.  

• Intersection between migration
• Gender and violence GBV; 
• International Protection System; Latin America