Psychological assistance to the Karabakh war veterans 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...
Second Karabakh war survivors “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“. Gevorg Karapetyan graduated from the Vazgen...
People and Karabakh conflict 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...
Second Karabakh war doctors 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. Surgeon...
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” Fidan Akhundova is an artist from Baku based in Berlin. Having recently managed to completely get rid of the...
Will Armenians and Azerbaijanis be able to live together and treat each other as equals, or will they remain enemies, trying to solve the conflict by force? Important decisions are usually made by governments and politicians, but, often, a lot depends on the position of the ordinary citizens, especially when...
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Karabakh Although the Armenian and Azerbaijani societies live in isolation from each other, in the unrecognized Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) there is a very small group of Armenians who communicate with Azerbaijanis almost every day – at work. This is the story of one of them – communication...
The Tbilisi-Gyumri-Kars railway remains closed, and with it the opportunities for communication between Armenians and Turks, as well as Azerbaijanis. In his blog, Armenian journalist Alexander Martirosyan reflects on how the second Karabakh war ended up closing communication routes and the difficulty of resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. “The railway that...
Since the 2020 war, Azerbaijani internally displaced persons from Karabakh have been expecting an early return to their homeland. But before they had time to rejoice at this prospect, they found themselves face to face with uncertainty. When will they return home and how? The story of Gulbyaniz Kerimova, an...
