Between September 2022 and April 2023, Caucasus Heritage Watch released two special forensic reports on cultural heritage caught up in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan Special Report #1 Silent Erasure: A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan documents the erasure of almost the entire Armenian heritage landscape in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan province by the Aliyev regime CHW Special Report #2 Between the Wars: A...

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Can the technologies of the global panopticon be used to deter states from programs of cultural genocide Caucasus Heritage Watch, a new research program led by Lori Khatchadourian and myself (Cornell University) alongside Ian Lindsay (Purdue University), is posing this question in the aftermath of the 2020 renewal of hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus Here I hope to document some of the issues that arise in the course of a long term civil society based monitoring...

Here is an opinion piece that Lori Khatchadourian and I just posted on Cornell's Medium blog entitled "The US can help prevent the destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh Here’s how" In it, we set out three ways that the incoming Biden administration can help head off an impending cultural heritage calamity in the South...