Getting to Know Nagorno-Karabakh
CI Online Course
On April 1 – May 6, 2021 the CI organized a 6-week free online course on Nagorno-Karabakh addressed to international students, scholars and journalists. The course focused on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, its history, its political, economic, and legal aspects, the stance of international and regional actors with regard to it, and the stereotypes and perceptions surrounding it.
The course was taught on the Zoom platform in a live interactive format to a group of 25 students from Turkey, Switzerland, Kosovo, Italy, the US, Poland, Chile, UK, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Estonia, Georgia, Austria selected based on online applications.
The lecturers were:
Alexander Iskandaryan, Political Scientist, Director of the Caucasus Institute, Yerevan
Laurence Broers, South Caucasus Programme Director, Conciliation Resources, London
Thomas de Waal, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe
Sergey Markedonov, Leading Researcher, Institute of International Studies at MGIMO-University
Hrant Mikaelian, Demographer and Economist, Senior Researcher at the Caucasus Institute, Yerevan
Gor Petrosyan, Political Scientist, Researcher at Caucasus Institute, YerevanAt the end of the course, participants were invited to write essays. Authors of essays received online certificates of completion. The best essays were published on the CI website.
Selected essays
Alun Macer-Wright
MA Violence, Terrorism and Security,
Queen’s University Belfast
Why Negotiations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Have Failed
Francesco TRUPIA, PhD
Postdoc Fellow at the University Centre of
Excellence Interacting Minds, Societies
and Environment (IMSErt) –
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń – Poland
Phillip Yonge
Master of Science, Russian and Eurasian Politics and Economics
King’s College London
Understanding Russian Conflict Resolution in the Nagorno
Karabakh Conflict Through Russia’s General Foreign Policy