The public discourse around the current escalation between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorny-Karabakh is largely focused on male centric politics and military analysis. The predominant image and voice in multimedia channels is that of male experts and male politicians, nationally, regionally and indeed internationally. Yet again, women’s expertise, priorities, and needs are made invisible, and the human security of the populations at large is treated as a secondary concern to ending the military offensive, as if one can happen without the other.
The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation puts forward this gender brief on the escalation with the aim of keeping women human rights defenders and women peacebuilders’ priorities and roles in focus.