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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268 Foresta, Ronald A., “Amazonia and the Politics of Geopolitics,” The Geographical Review, 82/2 (1992), pp. 128-42. Article contains a review of Brazilian geo- political thought and discusses the ways in which its application has affected Amazonian development. Gopal, Manan M., Politics, Race, and Youth in Guy- ana. San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992. This study of the attitudes of Indian youth toward changes in race relations in Guyana contains interesting information on the history of race relations in the country. The author concludes that there is con- siderable sentiment on the part of Guayanese citizens (as expressed by the youths who were interviewed) for unity across racial lines but that govemment manipu- lation of the electoral process prevented this from hap- pening. ' Greenberg, James B., Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1989. Analyzes violence in rural Mexico through use of the biography of an Indian man from the village of Yaitepec, followed by scholarly analysis of the reasons for violence. See especially chapter 12 on land conflicts and the following Part Il, “Expla- nations of Rural Violence in Mexico.” I-Iecht, Susanna and Alexander Cockbum, The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. London & New York: Verso, 1989. This book has become one of the most quoted sources on the policies and processes that account for environ- mental and human destruction in the Amazon Basin. The focus is on Brazil. This book is essential reading for background on ethnic conflict in the South Ameri- can lowlands. Hemming, John, ed., “The Frontier After a Decade of Colonization,” Change in the Amazon Basin, vol. II, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. A collection of 20 papers that deal with the impact of colonization in the Amazon Basin. This volume deals with the processes and impacts of colonization but not explicitly with ethnic conflict. Jeffrey, Henry B. and Colin Baber, Guyana: Politics, Economics and Society, Beyond the Bumham Era. London: Francis Pinter and Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1986. A survey that provides interesting historical background and analysis of the Guyanese situation through the end of the Bumham era. Kimmerling, Judith, Amazon Crude. Natural Resources Defense Council, 1991. An informative but polemical report on the impact of oil production on the environment and people of the Ecuadorian Ama- zon. Little, Paul E., Ecologia Politica del Cuyabeno: El Desarrollo no Sostenible de la Amazonia. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (ILDOS) y -Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. A timely analysis of impacts of oil exploration and pro- duction on Ecuador’s Cuyabeno National Park and its population. This book is a useful introduction to the principal points of conflict within the Ecuadorian Amazon. Mallon, Florencia E., “Indian Communities, Political Cultures, and the State in Latin America, 1780-1990,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 24: Quincentenary Supplement (1992), pp. 35-53. A review of the history of the role of indigenous political cultures to the for- mation of nation-states in Latin America. The author concludes that Indian movements will play an increas- ingly important role in resolving the region’s cultural and environmental conflicts. Mars, Perry, “Ethnic Conflict and Political Control: The Guyana Case,” Social and Economic Studies, 39:3 (1990), pp. 65-94. A review of the history of eth- nic conflict in Guyana before and following indepen- dence and up to the death of Forbes Bumham in 1985. The author concludes that there is a close connection between ethnic conflict and class conflict. Also, ethnic conflict varied depending on the nature of the political environment, with plurflist pre-independence systems leading to relatively peaceful relationships while the authoritarian Bumham government intensified ethnic conflict. Nietschnamm, Bernard, “The Third World War,” Cul- tural Survival Quarterly, 11:3 (1987), pp. 1-16. The recognized expert on ethnic conflict among geogra- phers reviews conflicts between states and “autono- mous nations,” (traditional ethnic minorities) around the world. A fundamental introduction to the topic. 94 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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