ABSTRACT
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict remains unresolved and somewhat obscure for media coverage and for scholarly attention. The conflict itself has been there for three full decades with no end in sight. This chapter provides a more clear and comprehensive analysis of the issues of international law relevant to the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict through a comparative legal analysis with the prominent case of the Aland Islands. It makes an effort to answer the question of whether the Aland Islands precedent can be used as a model for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. In the case of the Aland Islands precedent, which constitutes a territorial conflict between Sweden and Finland, resolved through an autonomous solution at the beginning of the 20th century, it was possible to discern the key elements of the case that are important from the point of view of public international law.
