This week, the ISN focuses on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over this de facto independent territory has been running since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Mediation efforts by the ‘Minsk Group’, a group of OSCE member states, haven’t brought any substantial success. Some even argue that they’ve been counterproductive.
As other disputes stuck in a ‘no peace, no war’ situation for so long, Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to the ‘frozen conflicts’ species. But the dramatic meltdown of the South Ossetia conflict last summer showed that frozen conflicts should be taken very seriously indeed.
- Check out this ISN Special Report on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by our senior correspondent in the South Caucasus, Karl Rahder.
- For information on current peace and stabilization efforts, check out this OSCE link and this ICBSS Policy Brief.
- And here are two papers pulled out of our Digital Library: one by the Elcano Royal Institute on foreign mujahedin in Nagorno-Karabakh and one by Swisspeace on ‘no war, no peace’ societies.
You might also want to check our resources on the whole Caucasus region or on mediation in peace processes in general.