Understanding the Conflict
Get the essential facts you need to understand the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict—a decades-long struggle between Armenia and Azerbaijan, marked by war, blockades, and the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in 2023. Explore the key events, impacts, and ongoing developments shaping this complex issue.
About the 2020 War
Explore a comprehensive overview of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) war, where Azerbaijan supported by Turkish forces launched a large-scale offensive that significantly altered the region’s landscape. This section provides an in-depth look at the key events throughout the 44 day way, offering essential context to understand the conflict.
Chronology of Events
This page lays out a chronology of key events and developments throughout the decades long Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, from the early days of the conflict in 1918 to the present day.
Academic Resources
This section highlights resources a student, researcher or journalist may need to understand the conflict, including books, academic articles, reports from international organizations, maps, and official documents. Click each category to learn more.
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Books
This section showcases a collection of books centered on the history, conflict, political, social and cultural heritage of the Karabakh region and its neighboring countries. These books cover a range of topics including historical surveys, chronicles, ethnographic studies, and geopolitical analyses of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Articles and Academic Journals
The articles and academic journals in this section provide a thorough and multi-perspective understanding of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, covering historical events, current developments, and potential paths towards peace.
Understanding Turkey-Azerbaijan Relations
This section offers in-depth analysis of Turkey-Azerbaijan relations and its impact on the region and Karabakh conflict.
Armenian Commission
The joint offensive launched by Azerbaijan and Turkey against Artsakh and the subsequent Armenian defeat in 2020 did not directly threaten Armenian statehood, but it did raise alarms about the survival of the Armenian state, prompting a group of academics to prepare the following document highlighting the urgency of establishing a Fact-Finding Commission. As well as some of the questions that a Fact-Finding Commission or researchers could pursue in order to uncover the truth, and enable a realistic fact-based analysis without pre-determined accusations or conclusions.
Voices on Karabakh
The Institute of Armenian Studies, a selected group of scholars, intellectuals, and artists to contribute short reflections and observations on the war in and for Karabakh / Artsakh, while trying to make sense of the time, the region, the body of knowledge, and about life, values, scholarship, and the world at large.
Recent and intergenerational trauma live on my small street in South Glendale. Iraq lives on my street, Syria lives on my street, Iran lives on my street, Artsakh and Armenia live on my street, Mexico lives on my street, Vietnam, Thailand, Palestine, live on my street.
About the Contributors
Emil Sanamyan
Emil Sanamyan writes on politics and security in the Caucasus and the wider neighborhood. His articles have appeared in the Jane’s Defense Weekly, Economist Intelligence Unit, Foreign Policy, the Diplomat, Open Democracy, EurasiaNet and elsewhere.
Narek Sukiasyan
Narek Sukiasyan Ph.D. specializes in foreign and security policy of Armenia and Armenia-Russia affairs. He was an Erasmus Scholarship holder at the Faculty of Political Science at Duisburg-Essen University and at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University.
Rober Koptaş
Rober Koptaş is a writer and publisher, from Istanbul Turkey. From 2010 to 2015, Rober served as the editor-in-chief of Agos, an Armenian trilingual weekly newspaper published in Turkey, and the general director of Aras Publishing from 2015 to 2023.
