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    Special Report: Common Ground in the Caucasus
    19 February 2010

    Since the 1994 cease-fire effectively put the conflict between Armenia
    and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh on hold,
    attempts to find a lasting peace have often been frustrated by negative
    stereotypes of each side, perpetuated by national governments and media.
    Yet Armenians and Azeris have more in common than they often care to
    acknowledge. In the Soviet era, both groups lived side by side in urban
    centers in Armenia and Azerbaijan; business relationships and even
    intermarriage were not uncommon.

    An older generation can remember the time when Armenians and
    Azerbaijanis lived, studied, and worked alongside each other. A new
    generation in both countries has no recollection of that past, and few
    opportunities to cross national divides. But in neighboring Georgia,
    ethnic Armenians and Azeris still co-inhabit residential districts in
    the capital and rural villages in some regions. And young activists
    throughout the South Caucasus are increasingly turning to to new media -
    blogs, Internet telephony, social networks - to break down information
    barriers and forge new alliances.

    For this project funded by TOL and the British Embassy in Yerevan,
    Armenian journalist Onnik Krikorian traveled with reporters and bloggers
    from Azerbaijan and Georgia to neighborhoods where Azeris and Armenians
    live peaceably side-by-side. One goal was to explore the utility of
    new-media tools such as Twitter and cell phone video to do real-time
    reporting and bypass traditional outlets (you can see some of the
    results at TOL's Steady State blog). Another was to show that Armenians'
    and Azeris' view of each other need not be defined by the Karabakh conflict.

    Follow the links below to see their written and audio reports on both
    the traditional and the burgeoning cooperation among nationalities in
    the region.

    http://www.tol.org/client/special-report/ 21197-special-report-common-ground-in-the-caucasus .html
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