I first met Caspar Ten Dam in 2011 in Yerevan, where he presented a brilliant paper on the genesis, mechanisms and development of regional conflicts which involve ethnic and religious minorities and their confrontation with regional and world powers. I discovered that the factual analyses which make up a basis for his theoretical models may have a universal meaning and may be also applied to different periods of history for example ancient history.Caspar Ten Dam is an independent scholar wit...

I know Drs. Caspar ten Dam since 2012 as my friend and PhD colleague when he was a PhD student in the Department of History and I in the Department of Political Science at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He has a good comprehension of the conflict and terrorism. He has been involved in various interdisciplinary researches dealing with human rights violations and terrorism prevention, particularly in the context of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the former Soviet Union. We had ...