The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution under George Mason University hosted an international conference entitled “Assessing the Deadlock in the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process.” The event brought together analysts from US, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. The conference was moderated by the Carnegie Endowment’s Russia and Eurasia Program Senior Associate Thomas de Waal, vestikavkaza.ru reported.

More than forty policy specialists attended the event, including several prominent US experts and scholars such as John Macdonald, creator of the term “conflictology,” and Peter Swibberg,

According to analyst Arzu Geybulayeva, online disputes between Armenian and Azerbaijani youth very often go beyond the boundary of personal attacks and this is impermissible, since it is the youth who must achieve reconciliation and coexist.  

In her turn, Canadian-Armenian analyst Tamara Palondyan noted that youth of the two conflicting parties have opposing views with respect to perception of, and resolution avenues for, the problem. In addition, the views of Armenians and Azerbaijanis living in their homeland and those living abroad also differ. Those living in their homeland are more pessimistic toward the prospect for conflict’s resolution. Palondyan also stated that attitudes toward the conflict and the possibility of a military resolution differ in both countries according to gender, as men are more supportive of an aggressive policy than women. So, according to the analyst, the women of both peoples should force the men to put an end to this conflict.