Gender Implications of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Alternative Feminist Perspectives

The research paper “Gender Implications of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Alternative Feminist Perspectives” focuses on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and on women, who have been affected by it and are still living in the conflicting territories.
It has already been 30 years since the first ethno-territorial clashes have occurred in this region and the toll of victims, traumas and death has been innumerable for all sides of this unsettled tension. Dominant perspectives on academic, as well as on state level, do not view women at the center of analysis or the history of the conflict, and are mainly constructed and articulated by masculine politics, while experience, knowledge, perspectives and voices of women in war are silenced and disregarded.
Bringing feminist perspective, aims at humanizing dominant politics, concentrating on social aspects and pushing for positive transformation. However, in the most cases women’s experiences and feminist perspectives on the Nagorno-Karabakh context are less researched and available.
The main goal of the research is to explore what are gender dimensions and implications of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The main objectives are to investigate and advance general knowledge about the positions and conditions of women, affected by the conflict, and to analyze women’s experiences through feminist perspective.
The main findings of the research reveal how the conflict and production of the nationalist narratives shape women’s lives in both private (inner) and public (outer) domains, and the forms and ways in which women’s oppression is multiplied.