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(Estimated Pub Date) the Challenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990S: Geographic Perspectives- October 1995

Central Intelligence Agency · 1995-10-01 · 205 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 96 …The unfortunate results of these contacts are well documented. They include: the spread of deadly diseases…
  • p. 129 …Today, throughout Southeast Asia, pop- ulation expansion, commercial exploitation of timber and mineral reserves, and initiatives…
  • p. 146 …In the mineral-rich Chhota Nagpur, in the northeast of peninsular India, tribals had estab- lished…
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