Cycles of conflict, displacement and a call to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh - Panel Discussion led by Dr Mark Owen - Talking Peace, Exploring Conflict: Thought Leader Series

Talking Peace, Exploring Conflict

Dr Mark Owen of the Centre of Religion Reconciliation and Peace (University of Winchester) hosts a panel discussion with Dr Ulrike Ziemer (University of Winchester), Dr Sossie Kasbarian (University of Stirling) and Dr Kevork Oskanian (University of Birmingham), to discuss the current conflict in the region of Negorno-Karabakh. Recorded on the 4th of November 2020. [UPDATE: Since making this podcast, on Tuesday 10th of November 2020 a cease-fire deal (trilateral agreement between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia) reached overnight after six weeks of heavy fighting]. Further information. We wait to see if and for how long this ceasefire will hold.

Dr Ulrike Ziemer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department for Applied Social Sciences, Forensics and Politics at the University of Winchester. Her research interests include youth, women, gender and diasporas in Russia, the Southern Caucasus and Eastern Europe.

Dr Sossie Kasbarian is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Stirling. Dr. Kasbarian’s research interests and publications broadly span diaspora studies; contemporary Middle East politics and society; nationalism and ethnicity; transnational political activism; refugee and migration studies. She is co-editor of the journal Diaspora- A Journal of Transnational Studies

Dr Kevork Oskanian is a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. His current research interests include Eurasian politics and security, postcolonial and civilisational perspectives on Russian narratives of “exceptionalism,” as well as post-liberal approaches to state and International Society in Eurasia and beyond.