“Sieves of Responsibility” — Connecting Failures of Genocide Prevention and Geopolitical Interests to Atrocity in Nagorno-Karabakh

Authors

Keywords:

Nagorno-Karabakh, invasion, genocide prevention, genocide cessation, international law, peacekeeping, geopolitics

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to both a legal and practical understanding of how international law dedicated to both genocide prevention and the cessation of genocidal atrocity failed during the 8-month long blockade of the Lachin Corridor—and the ensuing invasion and seizure of Nagorno-Karabakh over a 24-hour period by the Azerbaijani armed forces on 17 September 2024. The invasion led to the forced displacement of nearly the entire territory’s ethnically indigenous Artsakhtsi-Armenian population, amounting to a de facto deportation while escaping the threat of atrocity crimes. Through a discussion of (A) the events that preceded and led to the invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh itself, (B) an analysis of international law on genocide prevention through institutional mechanisms (i.e. UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948) and military intervention (i.e. Responsibility to Protect/R2P doctrine), (C) the difficulties of engaging with these mechanisms at a general level, (D) the international community’s response to the seizure of Nagorno-Karabakh, and (E) the geopolitical conditions surrounding the South Caucasus and Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, this article aims to identify the failures of both legal mechanisms intended to prevent the cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh and external actors (i.e. Russian peacekeeping forces legally stationed in the territory) to intervene and respond to the invasion in geopolitically turbulent conditions characterized by intersecting state interests.

Author Biography

David Hackett, Boston University

A second-year Ph.D. Student in Political Science at Boston University. He has occupied several academic and policy-related roles within the Republic of Armenia surrounding the Genocide Studies sub-discipline; his primary research interests surround genocide prevention, atrocity crime perpetration, memorialization and spatiality of trauma, and the geopolitics of the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian North Caucasus). Having spent six months on-site at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute as a research assistant and copy editor for the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies starting in January of 2023, he continues to occupy this role both in a dual remote/on-site capacity. He has also worked on-site to support the Foreign Ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) at its Yerevan Representation Office in 2023. Preceding the NKR’s dissolution, David contributed to publishing a report with the Lemkin Institute of Genocide Prevention in early September of 2023 which alerted the international community of impending genocidal atrocity in Nagorno-Karabakh.

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2024-06-28

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Hackett, D. (2024). “Sieves of Responsibility” — Connecting Failures of Genocide Prevention and Geopolitical Interests to Atrocity in Nagorno-Karabakh. International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 9(1). Retrieved from http://agmipublications.am/index.php/ijags/article/view/92