Pulitzer Center Director Jon Sawyer traveled to Russia and throughout the South Caucasus, reporting on a region that is caught between East and West, North and South as well as its own conflicted history.
Nagorno Karabakh
Published September 25, 2006
The 150,000 people of "Mountainous" Karabakh hold elections and field an army but their government is unrecognized by the world at large. These photographs show the landscape and life in one of the "frozen conflicts" left from the wars that broke out at the collapse of the former Soviet Union -- this one pitting Armenia against Azerbaijan. Ethnic Armenians prevailed and control the region -- witness the trampled tombstones in Muslim cemeteries and the careful reconstruction of spectacular Armenian churches. In the formerly Azeri town of Shusha (now Shushi) the burned-out shell of an apartment building recalls the war that was; the sparkling new Armenian church nearby testifies to the victors of today.
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The National Endowment for Democracy presents:
Brutal Censorship: Targeting Journalists in the North Caucasus
Jon Sawyer, the Pulitzer Center's founder and executive director presents a lecture titled "Conflict and Context: Reporting from the Caucasus" to the
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Pulitzer Center staff
Contact Jon: jsawyer[AT]pulitzercenter.org
Jon Sawyer is director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising...
