Preparing populations for peace: Implications for Armenian-Azerbaijani peacebuilding
July 2019
In January 2019, following a meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers in Paris, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe announced that the ministers had agreed on the necessity of ‘preparing their populations for peace’. This commitment, alongside a significant reduction in frontline violence and the power transition in Armenia, has driven speculation that the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process may be gaining momentum. This discussion paper reviews the opportunities and risks facing the process in this new conjuncture.
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In this short film, Laurence Broers, our Caucasus Programme Director, discusses the risks and opportunities facing the Nagorny Karabakh peace process at the present moment.
This work was funded by the European Union, through the European Partnership for the Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (EPNK). The views expressed here cannot be taken to represent those of the European Union or individual participants of the KCG.
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in focus
This Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict has lasted for over three decades, resulting in two full-scale wars in the early 1990s and in 2020, mass displacement, and a state of ongoing instability affecting the whole region.
