Bakhtiyar Aslanov is currently the Project Coordinator of the Berghof Foundation’s multi-year project “Memory and Alternative History in Azerbaijan” as well as an independent researcher in Peace studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow (2014). He has conducted quantitative and qualitative research on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and collaborated with senior researchers from Oxford University and Saint Gallen. He has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Caucasus Survey in 2018. He has also worked with numerous international organizations and INGOs such as the EU, UNICEF, Conciliation Resources, and Saferworld. His research areas encompass conflict transformation, mediation, reconciliation, IDPs and refugees, and civilian security in Post-Soviet countries as well as South Caucasus Area Studies. He has also been engaged in several peacebuilding projects – delivering training on peace and conflict, dealing with war and displacement trauma, fostering dialogue between the two sides of the conflict as well as developing educational materials for peace educators. He used to teach “International Conflicts” and “Conflict Studies” at Khazar University in Baku.