Aram Manoukian Institute for Strategic Planning publishes a policy paper on the right of return of Artsakh Armenians
WATERTOWN, Mass.—In February 2025, the Aram Manoukian Institute for Strategic Planning published its second policy recommendation series on the “Right of Return of the Armenians of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).”
The authors of the paper include Yeghia Tashjian, the Regional and International Affairs Cluster Coordinator for the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut and a columnist for the Armenian Weekly; Nareg Seferian, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at Hampden-Sydney College; Thomas Becker, the Legal and Policy Director at the University Network for Human Rights; and Salma Waheedi, Lecturer on Law and Executive Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School and a Legal Advisor on the Middle East and North Africa at the University Network for Human Rights.
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The proposals are a fantasy. Artsakh has been forever lost like Nakhichevan and Western Armenia. What is even more tragic, is that Artsakh has been squandered, and not just simply lost.
Azerbaijan has almost completely destroyed every trace of Armenian existence in Artsakh, from churches, cemeteries, monuments, public buildings, residences to whole villages.
Instead of giving Artsakhi refugees false hopes about an impossible return to Artsakh and letting them languish for many decades like Palestinian refugees in limbo, plans and investments need to be made to provide them and build them houses, provide them jobs, rebuild their lives in Armenia.
This is the issue which must be urgently addressed, and not wasted in pipe dreams. Not seeing a viable future in Armenia either, more Artsakhi refugees are also going abroad, if they get the oppurtunity and also have family members abroad. That Artsakhis have been deprived of their homeland and their homes is horrible enough, but with emigration, they are slowly dispersing.