Research and Analysis

The research aims to reveal the servicemen’s attitude towards military service, military staff, and fellow servicemen, as well as find out the manifestations of the most common human rights violations in the armed forces, opinions about the law enforcement agencies in the military sector, the reasons for those, and the effectiveness of particular institutions inlaid in the army. The collection, systematization, and analysis of data on the listed phenomena are aimed at creating an informational basis for solving various problems in the armed forces or, at least, for assisting further, more targeted, and in-depth research in this direction (including those conducted by the government agencies of the defense sector).

In this publication we would like to reflect on the situation of peacebuilders in Armenia and Azerbaijan and to show the local voices on the ground. Finalizing this project, we did not find answers to all our doubts and questions, but by sharing our experience we hope to highlight some crucial points, that contribute to the efforts for peace building in the region. Throughout the text, the “CONTACT” initiatives will be introduced in small textboxes to provide some insight into the work “on the ground”.

The second Armenian-Azerbaijani large-scale military confrontation – the 44-day war of 2020, as well as the events preceding it and continuing to this day – not only irreversibly transformed the geopolitical picture of the South Caucasus, but also created favorable conditions and became an incentive for the rearrangement of extra-regional power centers and sometimes unpredictable developments. Does the EU intend to reconsider its actions or approaches related to the South Caucasus after the establishment of a new status quo following the 44-day armed confrontation?

Within the framework of the monitoring, Peace Dialogue NGO focused specifically on monitoring the implementation of human rights protection activities in the Armed Forces, in particular, the actions concerning the right to life in the armed forces, the prohibition of torture, the right to a fair trial, as well as activities related to women’s rights in the context of the equality and prohibition of discrimination. This report is based on the results of the monitoring of the implementation of defense sector-related actions in the period from January 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021.

This report is devoted to the monitoring of the implementation of the defense sector-related actions in the period from January 1 to December 31, 2020.

The current study was conducted by Peace Dialogue NGO in order to identify the needs of those displaced as a result of a large-scale armed attack on Nagorno-Karabakh on 27 September, 2020. It aims at finding out the issues related to human rights (including the right to life, property, health, education), as well as legal, gender and peace-building spheres that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh faced during and after the evacuation to their temporary or permanent residence.

The current report presents violations of international humanitarian law which also lead to war crimes under international law committed by Azerbaijani military forces in the course of their military operation against Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and Armenia.