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What we have seen since the beginning of the year is something different: more serious, more sustained, and more dangerous.

A spokesperson for LINKS, one of the organisers of the event, said "We very much hope that Governments in the region, the international community, and civil society, will study these ideas and take at least some of them forward in 2015"

In this op-ed Dennis Sammut reflects on two events that occurred last week that highlighted the opposite ends of the situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The Paris meetings between the Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents were positively assessed by the two sides, but some dismiss them as diplomatic theatre.

Armenian analyst Dr Eduard Abrahamyan argues in this article for commonspace.eu that changes in the regional and global situation are leading to a rethink of policies by Iran, Armenia and others.

In this op-ed for commonspace.eu Dennis Sammut discusses why support for Turkey at the UN General Assembly collapsed, and the options ahead for Turkish diplomacy.

The Ministerial Council of the OSCE starts tomorrow in Kiev. It marks the end of Ukraine's uninspiring leadership of the organisation over the last year. Big challenges face the organisation in the coming two years.

Five years have passed since Georgia and Russia fought a short but costly war that again brought suffering and death on a huge scale to the Caucasus. Lessons need to be learnt and the world and the people of the region together must say "Never again", and must with their actions and their will avoid the spiral that leads to war. Commonspace.eu summarises the conflict and its background in ten short questions and answers as an introduction to a series of articles, interviews and special reports which we will be publishing over the next few days

Chairman of Azerbaijan`s Central Election Commission (SEC) Mazahir Panahov has met Head of the OSCE Office in Baku Koray Targay.