In 1997 Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan participated in the 'Preventing Violent Conflict in Europe' project at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (which was then situated in Ebenhausen). This book and the publication in it resulted from that research.
The hot stage of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict is a quarter of a century old. No resolution is in sight. When the conflict started, there were many attempts to explain its escalation. Here is one of them.