The cost of status quo of Nagorno Karabakh conflict and the dividends of peace

On November 18th 2008, Samvel Manukyan, a researcher, presented the review of his survey in the office of Civil Society Institute. The title of his survey was "The Cost of Status Quo of Nagorno Karabakh Conflict and the Dividends of Peace". The survey had been done with some experts, political scientists with different ideologies, and with frontier inhabitants of Armenia.

The main issues were:
1. The entity of status quo
2. The main attitude to Karabakh issue in Armenia
3. The definition of status quo; negative and positive influence
4. Dialogue of societies
5. The transformation and solution of Karabakh conflict

This survey had been done on the demand of the "International Alert" British organization. Surveys like this have been done also in Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan. This review was performed in Brussels, where a meeting was organized, which participants were experts and representatives of NGO's from Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

The meeting was organized in the frame of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation program.