Veterans of the war in Armenia often avoid seeking psychological help, hindered by both glorification and stereotypes. Mikael (not his real name), who fought in the 44-Day War, often suffers from nightmares. “He gets nervous, sometimes even aggressive. He isolats himself, jumps at loud noises, he has nightmares about the...
The Karabakh conflict isolated Armenian and Azerbaijani societies from each other for 30 years. While older generation still remembers how the two peoples lived in peace, many young people have never seen their peers from the “enemy” country. Thanks to state propaganda and stereotypes rooted in society, Armenian and Azerbaijani...
Five-year-old Anna Gulyan lives in a one-room apartment with her younger sister, parents, and aunt. The family has adapted to the new housing, but the apartment in the Yerevan suburbs still remains a stranger. Their own house remained in Shushi / Shusha, in Karabakh.
The second Karabakh war of 2020 divided the village of Shurnukh in the Syunik region in southern Armenia into two parts. As a result of the adjustment of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, part of Shurnukh came under the control of Azerbaijan, and 13 families living in this lowland part of the...
Based on my observations and other people’s stories, I came to the conclusion that most often participants in the war do not seek psychological help – they either do not want to, or cannot do it for one reason or another. In this blog, I will try to understand why...
“I got wounded on October 25th. First, I was taken by ambulance to the Stepanakert hospital, and from there to Yerevan, to the Erebuni medical center. I couldn’t feel half of my body and I already knew what had happened“.
Helen Muradyan lives in Yerevan and shares her story with the Trajectories project. The war accompanies me literally from the first days of my life since I was born during the first Krabakh war – in 1992. Then there were still two years left before the end of the war, but...
During the 44-day Armenian-Azerbaijani war in Karabakh in 2020, Hakob Khachatryan was one of those who were saving people, not killing them. Faithful to his professional duty, he helped whom he could, regardless of whether they were Armenian or Azerbaijani – regardless of nationality in general.
With the help of animation, an artist wants to show the degree of similarity between the Armenian and Azerbaijani peoples and help them get rid of the “image of the enemy”
