Category: CI post

When you tell a European that you are from Armenia, you often get a clarifying question, “Romania?” The names of Armenia and Romania certainly sound similar. There is also some similarity in the histories of Armenia and Romania: both were under Byzantine and Ottoman rule, both served as battlefields in the Turkish-Russian wars, both were […]

“I actually see a prospect of the Karabakh normalization. It could be very sudden,” – Georgi M. Derluguian, Associate Professor, Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi, says in an interview to the Caucasus Institute.   The expert offers, firstly, to take a look at the international environment around the South […]

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 at the international level, i.e. in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict speak about peaceful resolution, yet within the states in […]

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 […]

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