What we do on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict
On the road heading for the capitals Tbilisi, Baku and Yerevan
Conciliation Resources (CR) is working with national and international partners as part of a UK government-funded Consortium Initiative addressing the conflict. Four international non-governmental organizations are carrying out the three-year project, with each responsible for a separate strand of work.
We are responsible for the media and public awareness work. Our aims are to challenge stereotypes and improve the quality and diversity of media coverage about the conflict and peace process, and to increase public access to information in the region. Activities include:
- a South Caucasus-wide network of local journalists and radio stations that produces and broadcasts radio diaries about ordinary people’s daily lives
- an award-winning Russian language web forum with BBC Russian.com, which allows Armenians and Azerbaijanis to air their views
- work with CR’s Accord programme to produce the Accord publication: The limits of leadership: elites and societies in the Nagorny Karabakh peace process
- support to Nagorny Karabakh’s most widely read newspaper, Demo, with the Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
- the translation into Russian of a book about the conflict, Black Garden, Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War, written by Thomas de Waal
- a monthly radio series for Azeri communities displaced by the conflict, produced with Internews Azerbaijan and the BBC World Service, and aired on the BBC Azerbaijan service and local radio
- an exchange of articles by Azerbaijani and Armenian journalists about the conflict and peace process, published in each country’s press
- the Dialogue through Film project in which Azeri and Karabakhi journalists are trained in programme-making, then produce films about aspects of life in their societies.
Read more about our other work on the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict.