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Sustainable Development in Azerbaijan By Marat Kengerlinsky The
most recent history of refugees and internally displaced persons
(IDPs) in Azerbaijan dates back 15 years, when conflict erupted
over Azerbaijan's Armenian-majority enclave, Nagorno-Karabakh.
During the fighting that followed between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, over a million people on both sides were forcibly
displaced. Many of them live in refugee camps, depend on
insufficient humanitarian assistance, and face gloomy prospects
for the future. Today, the humanitarian organizations struggling
to help Azerbaijan's refugees and IDPs are engaged in a
transitional strategy aimed not only at protection, but also at
longer-term sustainable development. Roots of the Crisis In
1988, Azerbaijan and Armenia had not yet gained their
independence from the Soviet Union. The last years of the
communist era for these two countries were marked by large-scale
ethnic cleansings and bloody ethnic clashes, such as