Laurence Broers, Caucasus Programme Director at Conciliation Resources, speaks on the risks and opportunities facing the Nagorny Karabakh peace process at the present moment. Read our new discussion paper: www.c-r.org/preparingforpeace
The new paper, entitled 'Preparing populations for peace: Implications for Armenian-Azerbaijani peacebuilding' presents a summary of discussions at a meeting of the Karabakh Contact Group (KCG) format in Tbilisi, Georgia in May 2019. The meeting followed an earlier announcement in January 2019 by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, that the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers had agreed on the necessity of ‘preparing their populations for peace’ during a meeting in Paris. 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.
The Karabakh Contact Group (KCG) is a flexible dialogue format bringing together civil society activists, experts, journalists and policy-makers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh and further afield to think creatively on ways to overcome long-standing challenges in the Nagorny Karabakh peace process.
This initiative is funded by the European Union.
