Introduction
Laurence Broers (2005)
Laurence Broers highlights the competing terminologies, definitions and visions of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. He introduces a crowded state-centered peace process that marginalizes those communities that have most to gain or lose by it: the Karabakh Armenians and the displaced Karabakh Azerbaijani community. Armenian and Azerbaijani societies, moving away from conciliation towards the internalization of identities of victor or victim, lack a sense of ownership of a process characterized by secretiveness, centralization. Political elites have left themselves with little room for the compromises any settlement must entail. Broers concludes that progress requires deeper participation in the peace process and far greater space for engagement and dialogue within and between states and societies.
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