 When it comes to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, we are dealing with a “dormant conflict,” said Thomas de Waal, a British writer, publicist and author of Black Garden, a book on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, at a March 9 press conference.
“I don’t like the term ‘frozen conflict.’ The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a dormant one. A frozen conflict is in Cyprus where the two sides cannot reach an agreement, though they don’t return to acts of war,” said de Waal. According to him, today the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is in such a phase where there is hardly a war threat in the short-term, which, unfortunately, cannot be said for the long-term. “In long-term perspective, there is a threat of war. Unfortunately, we’re in such a situation that I would say it’s not a frozen conflict, but a ‘no war–no peace’ situation,” explained de Waal.
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