In almost 25 years of visiting Armenia, Azerbaijan and Karabakh I’ve had hundreds of conversations about the conflict with all sorts of different people, from politicians to farmers. I’ve heard the same views expressed hundreds of times, with interlocutors telling me how justice is on their side and the other side is the aggressor. There […]
DERLUGUIAN: ILHAM ALIEV MIGHT SUDDENLY CHANGE THE GAME AND BECOME A PEACE-MAKER
“I actually see a prospect of normalization in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It could be very sudden.” – Georgi M. Derluguian, Associate Professor, Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi “The international environment currently engulfing the South Caucasus is facing an unknown future. All three regional powers surrounding the South Caucasus – […]
ZHANNA’S WAR MEMORIES: SISTER
In autumn 1991 large-scale artillery shelling and aerial bombardment of Stepanakert were launched. The life of the city moved to basements. The evacuation was almost impossible. I heard a lot of stories about that period of time, about life in basements. I heard stories about the children who managed to get out of basements in […]
ALEXAN HAKOBYAN – THE STATUS-QUO IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH WAS KEPT THROUGH PASSIVE MEANS DURING THESE 20 YEARS
An interview with Alexan Hakobyan, Member of the Karabakh Committee, PhD in History. The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Do we speak more about war than peace? Mr Hakobyan, why do the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the international level, i.e. in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, speak about a peaceful resolution, yet within the […]
ZHANNA’S WAR MEMORIES: MOTHER
Stepanakert. Summer. It is hot. I am waiting for a bus. I see a woman coming to the bus stop with heavy bags in hands. She asks how long she should wait for the next bus to come. I answer that this bus arrives every 20 minutes. She looks tired, her face sunburnt and hands […]
I FELL IN LOVE INSTANTLY
ARMENIA AT THE CENTRE OF THE INFORMATION WARFARE
Armenia is currently in the midst of an information war. Information warfare does not only concern Armenia since numerous societies across the globe currently debate how to manage the consequences of it. Although modern technology has created greater access to information, it has also eased the flow of false information, propaganda and manipulation. The use […]
NEIL JARMAN ABOUT THE CHALLENGES NORTHERN IRELAND FACES AFTER THE PEACE AGREEMENT
After peace was established in Northern Ireland in 1998 putting an end to decades of violence the society faced a different type of challenges. Neil Jarman, CEO of the Institute of Conflict Research based in Belfast since 1996 thinks that their essence has been actually implementing the key strands of the agreement. He believes […]
THERE WERE RELIGIOUS OVERTONES IN THE NORTHERN IRELAND CONFLICT, BUT IT WAS POLITICAL IN NATURE – ALEXANDER ATTWOOD
Whilst I will make some comments about how we’ve gone bad in Northern Ireland in recent times, nothing should lead away from the fact that Northern Ireland is a far, far better place now than it has been at any time during my life and that’s nearly 60 years. The end of violence, the creation of the political agreement of 1998 and all the opportunities that came with that are immense and nothing should ever diminish what it is that we as a people have achieved