Gender Democracy - Armenia

We are glad to announce a call for contributions to a book project that seeks to reflect on masculinities in the South Caucasus through various angles, including personal, artistic, and scientific.

This analysis aims to reveal the socio-linguistic features that are conditioned by war. The text does not claim to be in-depth research, but rather aims to show what the connection is between war, language, gender identity, and what additional layers there are for studying this topic further.

During and after the 44-day war in Nagorno Karabakh, numerous initiatives were launched to assist people displaced in Armenia. Women played a particularly active role in providing humanitarian aid. This was due not only to the fact that men were involved in the war, but also to the experience women had gained from the first Karabakh war (1992-1994). The photo story tells about some of these active and assisting women.

This article tells about the stories of women who moved to Armenia in the third Artsakh war and whose husbands stayed in the battlefield in Artsakh.