The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the Harriman Institute, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) present:

Nagorno-Karabakh: How Frozen Conflicts End

Event Details:

Monday, April 28, 2025

12:15pm-2:00pm

1302 International Affairs

With guest speaker Liam Collins, Executive Director, the Viola Foundation; Co-Manager, U.S. Army General Wayne A. Downing Scholarship Program; Executive Director, Madison Policy Forum; Future Security Program Senior Fellow, New America; co-founder, the Urban Warfare Institute; Distinguished Military Fellow, The Middle East Institute; Permanent Member, Council on Foreign Relations.

Event Description:

Last month, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a historic peace treaty, ending their decades-long “frozen conflict” over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan’s overwhelming victory in the 44-day war in 2020 was the beginning of the end to the conflict. Yet this conflict, fought amidst the COVID pandemic, and then followed by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, remains understudied. Just back from a research trip to the region and having walked some of the war’s key battles, Dr. Collins will discuss how Azerbaijan won the war.

Registration: 

Advance registration required. To register, please email Saltzman Institute Coordinator Olivia Grinberg at ojg2112@columbia.edu.

This event is part of the Saltzman Institute’s ongoing event series on “Beyond the Headlines: Overlooked Conflicts and Prospects for Peace.” The event series is made possible with the funding support of Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.