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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 Conclusion Let me conclude by noting one of the main problems of the international response to forced migrations with ethnic components. That is, that migration regimes are set up on a bilateral basis that impinge on multilateral responses to regional problems. Individual states are setting laws while the responses to refugee-producing crises-~often related to ethnic conflict—a.re multilat- eral. Further, the UN is increasingly finding it difficult to intervene in many countries; they do not have the full mandate to deal with the internally displaced. In con- clusion, it is difficult for policymakers to do more than react to the latest refugee crises. By attempting to mit- igate refugee fiows by tailoring policies to react to events at local and regional levels, it will be easier to respond to, if not predict, ethnic conflict that dismpts the entire state. If that is done, govemments will be able at least to reduce the trauma of forced migrants and refugees, if not eliminate the cause of their move- ment altogether. Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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