Webinar: Nagorno-Karabakh: Potential consequences of a small war
Start: 2020-10-28 19:30:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)
End: 2020-10-28 21:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)
This is a virtual event
Nagorno-Karabakh: Potential consequences of a small war
Back in 1921, Joseph Stalin gave the region of Karabakh to Azerbaijan for political reasons even though the region has been over 90% Armenian. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the late eighties, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh pressed for more rights and also independence. Fighting then broke out with the Armenians taking over Karabakh and parts of Azerbaijan proper.
Since that time there has been efforts by the Minsk Group, which the United States is a part of, to bring about a solution, but those efforts have not brought about a peace settlement.
On September 27th Azerbaijan with the help of Turkey invaded Karabakh, and there has been heavy fighting since. There is a real fear that this war could lead to a wider war with larger powers becoming involved and the possibility of ethnic cleansing.
The webinar with cover both history and present situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Our speakers are David Phillips from the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and Aram Arkun, who is a specialist in modern Armenian history.
David L. Phillips is currently Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Phillips has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior adviser to the U.S. Department of State. He has held positions as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle East Studies, executive director of Columbia University’s International Conflict Resolution Program, director of the Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building at the American University, Associate Professor at New York University’s Department of Politics, and as a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He has also been a senior fellow and deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic
Since that time there has been efforts by the Minsk Group, which the United States is a part of, to bring about a solution, but those efforts have not brought about a peace settlement.
On September 27th Azerbaijan with the help of Turkey invaded Karabakh, and there has been heavy fighting since. There is a real fear that this war could lead to a wider war with larger powers becoming involved and the possibility of ethnic cleansing.
The webinar with cover both history and present situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Our speakers are David Phillips from the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and Aram Arkun, who is a specialist in modern Armenian history.
David L. Phillips is currently Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Phillips has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior adviser to the U.S. Department of State. He has held positions as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle East Studies, executive director of Columbia University’s International Conflict Resolution Program, director of the Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building at the American University, Associate Professor at New York University’s Department of Politics, and as a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He has also been a senior fellow and deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic
Oct 28, 2020 07:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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