CIAO DATE: 02/02

Negotiations on Nagorno-Karabagh: Where Do We Go From Here? (Summary and Transcript Publication, with Photographs)

At the Caspian Studies Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, we have been following the Nagorno-Karabagh peace process with great interest and have been encouraged by significant signs of progress this spring. Following the April 3-7 negotiations convened in Key West, Florida by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Caspian Studies Program organized a special panel discussion entitled "Negotiations on Nagorno-Karabagh: Where Do We Go From Here?" on April 23, 2001 in Cambridge. Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Director of Research at the Caspian Studies Program, moderated the panel which included Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh, U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabagh and NIS Regional Conflicts, and OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair; Professor Hamlet Isaxanli, President of Khazar University in Baku; and Professor Ronald Suny, Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. The panelists discussed the progress made at Key West, the prospects for peace moving forward, and the challenges to establishing lasting peace in the region.

More than one hundred researchers, graduate students, current and former U.S., Azerbaijani, and Armenian government officials, journalists, and other members of the Harvard community attended the panel and engaged the panelists in a rich and lively discussion after their presentations. The panel received extensive press coverage in the U.S. and in the region. The attached report contains a summary and full transcript of the panel discussion as well as photographs from the event.

— Melissa Carr, Program Director

Full Text of Report (pdf)

Front and Back Cover (pdf)

Photographs (pdf)