Resources on conflicts and peace processes
- Individual rights, societal choices: Confronting legacies of displacement in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict (November 2011 – 6 pages)
This policy brief addresses a problem at the heart of displacement dilemmas. While pre-conflict demography and settlement patterns cannot be recreated or restored, any peace agreement failing to establish a realistic basis for some degree of return is unlikely to be seen as legitimate by all conflict parties, or by the international community.
Also available in Azeri and Armenian.
- Forced displacement in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict: return and its alternatives (August 2011 – 88 pages) presents the research findings of Armenian, Azerbaijani and international analysts, who grapple with policy related questions arising from this legacy. Their essays reveal the fundamentally opposed nature of Armenian and Azerbaijani approaches to resolving this issue. The publication provides evidence of popular attitudes towards the return of displaced persons, and explores possible means, likely obstacles and alternatives to return.
- Re-thinking the Georgian/Abkhaz conflict (February 2011). In a new publication four leading analysts of the Georgian/Abkhaz conflict take stock of attempts over two decades to resolve the conflict and of fundamental approaches to understanding it. The publication focuses on the conflict from both a Georgian and an Abkhaz perspective. Rich in insight on the importance of interpretations of the conflict in shaping policies to resolve it, the authors chart shifting policy orientations among key actors up to the present day - and make suggestions for future policy options more conducive to conflict transformation.
- Displacement in Georgia: IDP attitudes to conflict, return and justice (March 2011)
The results of a survey conducted in June 2010 among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) displaced from Abkhazia as a result of the 1992-93 war and currently living in collective centres provide insight into IDPs' attitudes to displacement, return, conflict resolution and justice.
- Out of the margins. Securing a voice for internally displaced people: lessons from Georgia (October 2009)
This study documents the experience from a two-year project with our partner network of NGOs and activists to try to raise the political participation of displaced people in Georgia. [English high res PDF 3mb] [English low res PDF 667kb] [Georgian low res PDF 667kb] [Russian low res PDF 730kb]
- Nagorny Karabakh 2014 (September 2009)
This new publication presents different scenarios by six Armenian and Azeri analysts on the future of the Nagorny Karabakh peace process. [English PDF 502kb ] [Russian PDF 476kb]
- Twelve artists, one town
CR and Radio Soma, Abkhazia’s first independent radio station, produced
a 2008 calendar which features a collection of paintings of the Abkhaz capital,
Sukhum/i by Abkhaz, Georgian, Russian and Tartar artists who lived in the
town before the war. In English and Russian.
- South
Caucasus radio diaries book (2006) A
selection of real life stories from ordinary people since 2002.
These Russian-language diaries are broadcast on radio stations and published
in newspapers across the South Caucasus. The book can be downloaded and
an audio selection of diaries and a CD compilation are also available. more.
- The limits of leadership: elites and societies in the Nagorny-Karabakh peace process (Accord Issue 17, 2005). New translations for Accord issue
on Nagorny Karabakh are now available in Azeri
and Armenian, with a new preface,
also in English, by the Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline
Calmy-Rey.
- Пределы возможностей лидеров: элиты и общества в нагорно-карабахском мирном процессе (Accord выпкуск 17, 2005)
- Owning the process: public participation in peacemaking (Accord issue 13, 2002) outlines approaches developed by government and civil society that open up the process to more people. Available in Russian.
- Сопричастность процессу Участие общественности в миротворчестве (Accord выпуск 13, 2002)
- A question of sovereignty: the Georgia-Abkhazia peace process (Accord Issue 7, 1999)
- Проблемы суверенитета: Грузино-абхазский процесс мирного урегулирования (Accord выпкуск 7, 1999)
Periodicals
- 'Civil Society' (Grazhdanskoe Obshchestvo) magazine, produced by long-time CR partner, the Center for Humanitarian Programmes in Sukhum/i, aims to stimulate debate about the role Abkhaz civil society can play in promoting democratic values, civic control and public participation in decision-making.
February 2010 [Russian pdf 1.7 mb]
March 2010 [Russian pdf 1.5 mb]
April 2010 [Russian pdf 930 kb]
May 2010 [Russian pdf 2.25 mb]
June 2010 [Russian pdf 1.59 mb]
Newsletters
- People and times (2009) This monthly newsletter/information bulletin is published by people living in Gal/i for people living in Gal/i and beyond. It covers news across Abkhazia, with a special emphasis on events in Gal/i and the neighbouring districts of Ochamchira and Tkvarchal.It is distributed throughout Abkhazia.
May 2009 [Russian pdf 451kb] June 2009 [Russian pdf 505kb]
July 2009 [Russian pdf 509kb] August 2009 [Russian pdf 498kb]
September 2009 [Russian pdf 292kb] October 2009 [Russian pdf 268kb]
November 2009 [Russian pdf 444kb] December 2009 [Russian pdf 577kb]
January 2010 [Russian pdf 304kb] February 2010 [Russian pdf 484kb]
March 2010 [Russian pdf 484kb] April 2010 [Russian pdf 233kb]
May 2010 [Russian pdf 483kb] June 2010 [Russian pdf 472 kb]
July 2010 [Russian pdf 233kb] August 2010 [Russian pdf 554 kb]
September 2010 [Russian pdf 369 kb] October 2010 [Russian pdf 290kb]
November 2010 [Russian pdf 442kb] December 2010 [Russian pdf 348kb]
January 2011 [Russian pdf 365kb] February 2011[Russian pdf 406kb]
March 2011 [Russian pdf 356kb] April 2011 [Russian pdf 537kb]
May 2011 [Russian pdf 737kb] June 2011 [Russian pdf 528kb]
July 2011 [Russian pdf 807kb] August 2011 [Russian pdf 890kb]
September 2011 [Russian pdf 520kb]
Occasional papers and articles
- Walking the tighrope in Kazan – the summit and its aftermath.
Opinion piece by Dr Laurence Broer, Conciliation Resources, examining latest developments in the Karabakh peace process. CommonSpace, July 2011.
- The Karabakh trap. The conflict between Armenians and Azeris over Nagorny Karabakh (NK) poses serious dangers to the South Caucasus’s future but is still low on the international agenda. A new paper by Conciliation Resources programme associate Thomas de Waal analyses the current situation and argues for more long-term strategic thinking in debates on how to move forward one of the world’s most closed and confidential peace processes. February 2009.
- The Rose Revolution and the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: light at the end of the tunnel? Article by Rachel Clogg, Conciliation Resources, published in Johnson’s Russia List Research and Analytical Supplement, issue no. 24, May 2004
- Changing the guard. Article by Jonathan Cohen, Conciliation Resources, published in The World Today, [Royal Institute of International Affairs], January 2004 [pdf 1.2mb]
- The Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: reflections on four study visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland, Clem McCartney, Jonathan Cohen, Rachel Clogg, February 2003
- Struggling to find peace. Chapter by Jonathan Cohen, Conciliation Resources, published in Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia, Paul van Tongeren, Hans van de Veen and Juliette Verhoeven eds., Lynne Rienner Publishers, London, 2002
- Abkhazia: ten years on. Article by Rachel Clogg, Conciliation Resources, commissioned by the Association for the Study of Nationalities Analysis of Current Events in 2001.
Video
- Absence of will: a journey through Georgia’s conflict zones. This new Georgian film by our partners Studio Re, is set against the background of the August 2008 conflict in South Ossetia, and follows two young Georgian students in their quest for answers to why their country went to war in the early 1990s, and why a peace deal remains elusive. Available as a DVD and to watch on YouTube.
- Dialogue through film DVD (2008)
A selection of short films from a unique project on the conflict over Nagorny Karabakh. Made by young Karabakh Armenians and Azerbaijanis, they chart the hopes, fears and humour of people living with the consequences of conflict. Watch on YouTube.
Various joint Georgian-Abkhaz documentary films (listed below) can be viewed on the website of our partner Studio Re in Georgia.
- Abkhazia – one side of a conflict (2004) - a Georgian journalist’s view on life and attitudes in Abkhazia a decade after the year-long war between Georgia and Abkhazia.
- Ten years on and still waiting (2004) - offers an Abkhaz perspective on Georgia and the aspirations of its people, including those displaced by the conflict.
- Karabakh (2004) - a film made jointly by Georgian and Abkhaz journalists about the conflict over the territory of Nagorny Karabakh.
- Northern Ireland experience (2003) - a film made jointly by Georgian and Abkhaz journalists about the conflict in Northern Ireland.
- Hoping for peace (2002) - focuses on the impact of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict on the residents of the Gal/i region.
Audio
- South Caucasus Radio Diaries (2006) CR's partners have been recording real life stories from ordinary people since 2002. These diaries are broadcast on radio stations and published in newspapers across the South Caucasus. Listen to a selection of Russian-language audio diaries. A book about this project can also be downloaded. Read more about the project.
- Abkhazia – a view from within (2004) This audio CD produced by our partner in Abkhazia, Radio Soma, documents life today in Abkhazia by exploring the capital, Sukhum/i, and its inhabitants, the business community and religion. Listen to excerpts on Soma’s website.
Photos
View the South Caucasus Radio Diaries photo gallery and the Dialogue Through Film photo gallery
Educational and training materials
- Discussion pack on the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. Russian 2002 [pdf 650kb]. Produced with the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, this is used as a tool for conflict analysis with groups of young people in Georgia and Abkhazia.
- Working with conflict: skills and strategies for action. A source book for people working in areas affected by conflict and violence and used in conflict analysis workshops run by our partners in Georgia and Abkhazia. The original English language version by Fisher et al was published in 2000 by Zed Books in association with Responding to Conflict.
Georgian section 1 [ pdf 1.2mb] Get Adobe Reader
Georgian section 2 [ pdf 820kb]
Georgian section 3 [ pdf 1.1mb]
Georgian section 4 [ pdf 700kb]Russian section 1 [ pdf 4.2mb]
Russian section 2 [ pdf 3.7mb]
Russian section 3 [ pdf 3.7mb]
Russian section 4 [ pdf 1.5mb]
