After the Second World War, the second half of the 20th century can be considered the “golden age” of human rights. Referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, almost all states of the world added human rights provisions and normative acts to the content of their national Constitutions. In the second half of the 20th century, the idea and perspectives of human rights were...
A Prologue to the Epilogue The article is about the peculiarity of the “Women for Peace” campaign initiated by the RA Prime Minister’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, and the reopened talks on peace in the public domain, combined with the stories of peace-building efforts of female figures of different periods of the Armenian reality. The work on the article started parallel to the launch of the...
The research reveals the perceptions of persons displaced due to the second Karabakh war on the concepts of war and peace, peaceful coexistence in the region, their future and the future of Karabakh․ It is an attempt to understand the relationship between war and socioeconomic context, retrospective reflections on the causes and expectations of war, perceptions of the future and the possibility...
The article by Arpy Manusyan, Mariam Khalatyan, Nvard Margaryan, and Armine Ishkanian analyzes the global civil society response to the war in Nagorno Karabakh, which erupted on September 27, 2020, following Azerbaijan’s military strike. It highlights the lack of attention and action from international NGOs and media despite significant suffering and humanitarian crises in the region. The...