The 'Peace-Builders’ (October/November 2018) | Chai Khana

War and Peace: Women of the Battlefield

65-year-old Marietta Khachatryan has been wearing a military uniform for 26 years. An engineer by profession, she join up to fight in the Karabakh...

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10/09/2018

Azerbaijan: Thy Neighbor’s Keeper

The relationship between Gular’s family and her Armenian neighbors reflected the melting pot that was her overall neighborhood until the late...

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10/10/2018

Talking Back to the Surrounding Silence

Living in a patriarchal and militarized society, while personally rejecting the accepted social values, one burns to talk about other values and...

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10/01/2018

Meet Arzu: Peace Agent Between Azerbaijan and Armenia

Veteran female peace activist Arzu Abdullayeva shares her experience implementing peacebuilding projects with colleagues from Armenia, as well as...

Views: 2576

10/18/2018

War Knows No Gender: Georgia’s female soldiers

Gender stereotypes are strong in Georgia, where many parents still raise little boys to think they have to be strong and brave and little girls...

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10/19/2018

Bringing Injustice to Light in Armenia

Digging into what lays under the surface is almost a vocation for Zhanna Aleksanyan. So when the Armenian military Prosecutor’s Office...

Views: 2508

10/01/2018

Nagorno-Karabakh: Two Wars, Two Mothers

Yelena who in 2013 left her native town of Askeran and moved to Pyatigorsk, a city in Russia’s northern Caucasus where her husband’s...

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11/06/2018

Georgia’s First Female Defense Minister Reflects on Her Mixed Legacy

In Georgia's 27 years of independence, the country has only had one female defense minister, Tina Khidasheli. Her tenure at the ministry was marked...

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11/12/2018

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