AVIM and Azerbaijan SAM are co-hosting a conference on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on 21 November 2014.

ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN, THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT:
A THREAT TO REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY AND NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS

OPENING SPEECHES

13.00-13.45

Gulshan Pashayeva, Deputy Director of the Center for Strategic Studies (SAM) under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Alev Kılıç, Director of the Center for Eurasian Studies (AVIM)
Faiq Bagirov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Ankara
Glen Howard, President of Jamestown Foundation

FIRST PANEL

13.45-15.15

The “Nagorno-Karabakh Issue” from 1828 to Present
Demographic Processes and Administrative Changes

Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Musa Qasımlı

1. Demographic processes in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1828 to present (Prof. Dr. Musa Qasımlı, MP of the Republic of Azerbaijan, historian)
2. Administrative changes in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh after 1828 (Dr. Araz Aslanlı, Director of the Caucasian Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies – QAFSAM)
3. The Role of the Karabakh Clan in Armenia’s Domestic Politics (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Ali Karasar, lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Atılım University)
4. Nagorno-Karabakh in the Ottoman archives (Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sarınay, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Letters of TOBB University of Economics and Technology, former manager of the state archives of the Prime Ministry of the Republic of Turkey)

TEA-COFFEE BREAK

15.15-15.30

SECOND PANEL
15.30-17.00

Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh Dispute within the Context of Geopolitical Interests

Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Kamer Kasım

1. Azerbaijan’s stance towards the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute (Dr. Gulshan Pashayeva, Deputy Director of Azerbaijan SAM)
2. The Nagorno-Karabakh dispute in international law (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cavid Abdullahzade, lecturer at the Department of International Law, Ankara University)
3. Great Powers’ stance towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute (Prof. Dr. Kamer Kasım, Vice President of the International Strategic Research Organization - USAK)
4. Turkey’s stance towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute (Aslan Yavuz Şir, Senior Specialist at AVIM)