The impact of territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia: a case of Agorno-Karabakh.

Abstract

The study focuses on the impact of conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh. From time immemorial, states have been involved in various forms of border conflicts. For some of these conflicts, it can be said to have erupted due to the colonial ties shared by the states, for political motives or as a result of the natural resources found in such a border that will therein improve their economy. The conflict is peculiar in nature because it is not a conflict over waterways or airspace but a conflict over a territorial space that involves a group of people. The reason for their occurrence in the current shape is long term suppression in the Soviet country of mechanisms of articulation and aggregation of social demands as well as channels of communication. The study analysed the impact of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia using the interpretivism research philosophy in its analysis of the conflict. In its quest to analyse the impact of the conflict the study employed a qualitative methodology and the descriptive research design. The study established that the conflict could not be ended by the mediation of the Minsk group for the peaceful solution while considering the issue as the dilemma and the two parties had not been closer to a resolution and the Nagorno-Karabakh region remained in limbo for 28 years. The study recommends that an International Law informed solution must be applied on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. However, the right to self-determination does not automatically mean the right to secession, or the right to establish one's own state