‘Never Any Conflict’: A Village Of Peace For Ethnic Armenians, Azerbaijanis In Georgia

With only a few hundred households, the southern Georgian village of Khojorni does not usually attract international attention. But its mixed ethnic Armenian-Azerbaijani population, characteristic of several other Georgian villages as well, shows why Georgia has offered to mediate between its neighbors, Armenia and Azerbaijan, in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis have long lived peacefully together in this South Caucasus country of roughly 3.7 million people.