Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh region, captured by Armenian forces in 1992. Photo CC: Michele Finotto / Flickr. Some rights reserved.
A recent outbreak of fighting has once again brought world attention to bear on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an unresolved territorial dispute involving Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south Caucasus. Since 2 April, dozens have been killed and many more seriously wounded. Thankfully much of the fighting has subsided while the sides return to a nominal ceasefire. While media attention is warranted and necessary, it does raise ethical questions about how journalists and researchers cover the conflict. Every time we tweet, retweet, write a blog post, or publish an article about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, we become unwilling combatants in a decades long war that, if we’re being honest, we know very little about.
