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During the spring and summer of 1989, when the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh was just starting, a relatively peaceful exchange of villages took place between Azeris (Kyzyl-Shafag, Armenia) and Armenians (Kerkendj, Azerbaijan). This exchange is placed in the broader context within the framework for analyzing conflicts in the Southern Caucasus. Politicians and actors in humanitarian organizations focused attention on acts of opposition or violence, thus “historicizing” or “essentializing” the conflict, which was seen as involving two implacably opposed historical identities. During the post-Soviet period, a body of tales and myths formed, which presents this conflict as being historical and insolvable. Such approaches overlook the many examples of peaceful relations and cooperation between these two peoples. If we focus on everyday relations between the two communities however, we observe an extremely complicated network of varied contacts not of rivalry alone but also of cooperation or even solidarity.