Religion in a Non-Religious War: The Conflict over Nagorno Karabakh 

Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford

Strategic Note on Religion & Diplomacy (Georgetown University), May 2021, pp. 8-10.

The instrumentalization of religion—especially Islam by Azerbaijan in foreign relations—in the nonreligious Nagorno Karabakh conflict could further deepen the differences among the parties in the conflict and in the region, and make a final resolution and reconciliation even more difficult.