Since a 1994 ceasefire agreement, the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been frozen, facing a number of politically impossible resolution scenarios. The negative effects of this conflict have not only damaged the lives of those who lived through it, but are now being passed on to new generations, as children are born, not as Azerbaijani citizens, but into the nationhood of internally displaced persons(IDPs).

More than 600,000 people still live in IDP camps: train cars, dugout animal shelters, public schools, unfinished buildings and other improvised housing. These marginalized populations have long hoped to be allowed to return home. After 14 years of no progress on the settlement, a disabling state of dependency has become the norm for this group of people who were forced to become aliens in their own country, and who struggle to maintain their dignity in inhumane conditions.

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