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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 t far-reaching weapons and technology. So the Defense Department, and the US Government in general, has quite an interest in this phenomenon and is trying to understand it and construct a; strategy to address it. In attempting to grapple with this issue, initial think- ing on a Clinton national security strategy has focused on three elements? ' Engagement. The United States is committed to remaining engaged in international affairs. ~ Prevention. We want to prevent or contain the effects of ethnic conflict. We want to use all the ele- ments of national power, development assistance, and trade assistance to prevent conflict, and, if that does not work, we want to act early to keep the con- flict small. , ~ Partnership. We want to expand the core group of like-minded democratic countries that we forged during the Cold War and have this group work as a I 1 In July 1994, the Clinton Administration published its first com- prehensive national security strategy, which used as its concep- tional framework the elements of "engagement" and "enlargement." _ partnership to either prevent or to contain conflict. We need to work together in a variety of multilateral and bilateral ways to marshal all those resources together as a partnership for addressing the issue. The govemment needs much more analysis to under- stand in a robust way the phenomenon of ethnic and national conflict. We need academic researchers to tum toward applied robust, rigorous, and predictive research that we can bring inside the govemment in testable ways and see if we can motivate policy. We are not interested in sponsoring more original research; as Dr. Ted Gurr wrote in his book on conflict a few years ago, there are 686 books on the theory of conflict—we do not want a 687th. What we want are robust, testable, applied research and models that we can bring inside the govemment. We take this problem seriously. It is a critical issue of US national security. 185 > n Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.