The Karabakh Podcast

This interview with Rusif Huseynov, Co-founder and Director of the Topchubashov Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, was held on 10 February 2023. In it, Huseynov shares his opinion and commentary on the view from Baku on apparently dashed hopes for a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the impasse on the Lachin Corridor, Ruben Vardanyan, and the state of Track II diplomacy in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

This interview with Sevak Kirakosyan, an educator, activist, and founder of the Ekam Origo (https://ekamorigo.org) initiative in Armenia. He has been involved in numerous cross-border projects in the South Caucasus. This podcast was held on 21 February 2022.

This interview with Kamal Makili-Aliyev, an associate professor of international law and human rights at Malmö University in Sweden and author of “Contested Territories and International Law: A Comparative Study of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and the Aland Islands Precedent,” was held on 17 February 2022.

Welcome to the Karabakh podcast, an informal and irregular series of interviews and discussions with pretty much anyone who can be considered an alternative voice on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.   There will be some guests who are already known to many of you, but I hope also some new and emerging names actively involved with attempts to find a lasting peace.   This interview with Ahmad Alili, the director of the Baku-based Caucasus Policy Analysis Center (CPAC) was held on 28 October 2021.

Welcome to the Karabakh podcast, an informal and irregular series of interviews and discussions with pretty much anyone who can be considered an alternative voice on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.   There will be some guests who are already known to many of you, but I hope also some new and emerging names actively involved with attempts to find a lasting peace.   This interview with Richard Giragosian, the founder and director of the Yerevan-based Regional Studies Center (RSC) was held on 27 October 2021.

Welcome to the Karabakh podcast, an informal and irregular series of interviews and discussions with pretty much anyone who can be considered an alternative voice on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.   There will be some guests who are already known to many of you, but I hope also some new and emerging names actively involved with attempts to find a lasting peace.   This interview with Emin Milli, the founder and former director of Meydan TV and now the co-founder of the Restart Initiative, was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 16 October 2021.

Welcome to the Karabakh podcast, an informal and irregular series of interviews and discussions with pretty much anyone who can be considered an alternative voice on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.   There will be some guests who are already known to many of you, but I hope also some new and emerging names actively involved with attempts to find a lasting peace.  Today, I’m happy to connect with Cavid Ağa, a social media researcher based in Baku, Azerbaijan. This interview was held on 20 September 2021.

Welcome to the Karabakh podcast, an irregular series of interviews and discussions with anyone that can be considered an alternative voice on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.   There will be some guests who many of you might know already, but I also hope that some new names will be among them too.   Today, I’m delighted to speak to Arnold Alahverdian, one of the three names behind the Bright Garden Voices platform that also seeks to engage and involve many more Armenians and Azerbaijanis in open conversation and debate.   This interview was held on 1 March 2021.  If you'd like to discover more about Bright Garden Voices you can follow them on Twitter at @brightgardenv and on YouTube here.   For anyone wanting to help or support the project they can be contacted at [email protected]

Welcome to the Karabakh podcast, an informal and irregular series of interviews and discussions with pretty much anyone who can be considered an alternative voice on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh. There will be some guests who are already known to many of you, but I hope also some new and emerging names actively involved with attempts to find a lasting peace. Today, I’m happy to connect with Dr. Arman Grigoryan, an Associate Professor at Lehigh University in the United States. An Armenian citizen, his focus is on ethnic conflict and nationalism. This interview was held on 19 February 2020.

At the end of September 2020, fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan again broke out over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh. A ceasefire agreement signed in the second week of November 2020 ended hostilities, but what are the chances for peace. This interview with Azerbaijani activist and journalist Nigar Fatali was held two days after the 9/10 November 2020 ceasefire.