When a Ceasefire is Not Enough admin, January 1, 2021January 21, 2025 THE WAR BETWEEN Armenia and Azerbaijan this past autumn was an avoidable tragedy. The disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region has been populated since at least the second century B.C.E. by Armenians, one of the world’s oldest Christian civilizations. The Muslim Azeris and others have lived there and in neighboring areas for centuries as well, and the region was ethnically mixed (albeit majority Armenian) when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Continue Reading