Introduction: Understanding How the Historical, Democratic and Human Rights Contexts of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia Affect the Search, Exhumation, and Identification of Conflict-Related Missing Persons in the South Caucasus

IF 0.5 Q3 AREA STUDIES

Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-07-06 DOI:10.30965/23761202-20220010

J. Sarkin

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Abstract

This article introduces the Special Section dealing with conflict related missing persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. It examines the context to the conflicts in the region and brings to the fore the fact that the breakup of the Soviet Union has had a massive legacy in terms of the conflicts it spawned, over identity matters and various territorial claims, and how that vestige lingers today. The article examines why the three countries are useful to analyse comparatively, what we can learn from them and how these issues are also reflective of the democratic and human rights status in each. This article ends by discussing the general problems relating to missing persons in the three countries, and why the law and the processes to deal with missing persons in these and many other countries around the world need to be reformed. The focus of each of the three country articles is then more inward-looking. They explore the situation in each country concerning missing persons, the institutions that have been established to deal with those matters, the laws that deal with missing persons, and what is needed to make progress on all the issues relating to missing persons.

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简介:了解亚美尼亚、阿塞拜疆和格鲁吉亚的历史、民主和人权背景如何影响南高加索地区与冲突有关的失踪人员的搜寻、挖掘和身份识别

本文介绍了处理亚美尼亚、阿塞拜疆和格鲁吉亚境内与冲突有关的失踪人员的特别科。它审视了该地区冲突的背景，并突出了这样一个事实，即苏联解体在其引发的冲突、身份问题和各种领土主张方面留下了巨大的遗产，以及这种遗产今天是如何挥之不去的。这篇文章探讨了为什么比较分析这三个国家是有用的，我们可以从中吸取什么，以及这些问题如何也反映出每个国家的民主和人权状况。本文最后讨论了这三个国家与失踪人员有关的一般问题，以及为什么这些国家和世界上许多其他国家的法律和处理失踪人员的程序需要改革。这三篇国别文章的焦点都更加向内看。他们探讨了每个国家关于失踪人员的情况，为处理这些问题而设立的机构，处理失踪人员的法律，以及在所有与失踪人员有关的问题上取得进展需要什么。

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Caucasus Survey Arts and Humanities-History

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1.30

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Caucasus Survey is a new peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and independent journal, concerned with the study of the Caucasus – the independent republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, de facto entities in the area and the North Caucasian republics and regions of the Russian Federation. Also covered are issues relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Crimea, the Cossacks, Nogays, and Caucasian diasporas. Caucasus Survey aims to advance an area studies tradition in the humanities and social sciences about and from the Caucasus, connecting this tradition with core disciplinary concerns in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, economics, political geography and demography, security, war and peace studies, and social psychology. Research enhancing understanding of the region’s conflicts and relations between the Russian Federation and the Caucasus, internationally and domestically with regard to the North Caucasus, features high in our concerns.