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PSIA Seminar: Armenian Volunteer Fighters in the Nagorno- Karabakh Conflict: From One War to the Next
February 22, 2017 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm +04
In April 2016 the ‘Four-Day War’ erupted in Karabakh and on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia. This short but brutal bout of hostilities was one more manifestation, if any were needed, of the unstable situation – ‘neither war nor peace’ – that has reigned in Karabakh since the cease-fire in 1994. This seminar is questioning the notion of volunteering against the backdrop of a twenty-five year old unresolved conflict. It does so through an exploration of representations and motivations of volunteers from Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh. The purpose of this seminar is to offer some insights on the features of that particular societal response (volunteering) in a situation of politically non-resolved and militarily never-ending conflict.
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About the speaker:
Taline Papazian is a doctor in political science (2011, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris). Her PhD offered a reassessment of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on state-building in Armenia in the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods. She has been adjunct lecturer at Sciences Po Paris in Political science, International relations, Soviet and post-Soviet studies and European studies. She has been working on comparative politics and armed conflicts in the South-Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia) as well as, more recently, in Israel. Her most recent publication includes: L’Arménie à l’épreuve du feu. Forger l’Etat à travers la guerre. Paris: Karthala, 2016. |
