Contemporary History Textbooks in the South Caucasus
Contemporary History Textbooks in the South Caucasus

Author(s): Ilham Abbasov, Nino Chikovani, Ketevan Kakitelashvili, Sergey Rumyantsev, Tigran Zakaryan, Mikayel Zolyan
Contributor(s): Luboš Veselý (Editor), Tamriko Bakuradze (Translator)
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Nationalism Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: AMO – Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky
Keywords: South Caucasus; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; history textbooks; collective identity; nationalism; reconciliation; Central European experience; tolerance;
Summary/Abstract: The idea of this book was born during an extraordinary meeting of historians and civil society activists in Tsakhnadzor, Armenia in autumn 2007. In a situation of de facto state of war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and significant minorities from these countries living in Georgia, participants from all three states of the South Caucasus have agreed that neither older nor newer history must divide the region’s nations and be an instrument of political conflict. This seemingly banal statement is not only rather exceptional in the Caucasus region, but it is also very bold for various reasons.

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