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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.

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  • p. 95 …guilty of mistreating Indians who are not cooperative. It may be that Sendero Luminoso has driven…
  • p. 106 …In the Guate- malan case, it has been a cooperative movement with inputs from the Catholic…
  • p. 130 …2018/06/01 C00123268 ' the loyalty, allegiance, and cooperation of ethnic groups whose interests were perceived…
  • p. 142 …Not surprisingly, the League vacil- lated between periods of cooperation with the Con- gress and periods…
  • p. 192 …Active cooperation in this partnership could lay the foundation for full NATO membership. In short, future…
  • p. 193 …We must now extend these habits of cooperation to the East. 183 I I Approved for…
  • p. 197 …UN or the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe—and as long as certain rules…
  • p. 201 …Learning About Conflict and Cooperation Much of the discussion during the past few days has focused…
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The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict
to National and International
Order in the 1990s: Geographic
Perspectives
This report contains the proceedings from a conference entitled, The Chal-
lenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990s:
Geographic Perspectives, which took place from 30 September to 1 October
1993. The conference was sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency’s
Geographic Resources Division.‘ It featured academic geographers and
anthropologists who are specialists in ethnic issues and US Govemment offi-
cials with practical experience in dealing with the consequences of ethnic
conflict.
This report contains the papers that the participants presented as well as the
key points of the discussions that followed. Where appropriate, the authors
have updated their papers to reflect events since the conference. The views
herein are those of the individual participants and not necessarily those of
their affiliated organizations, the Central Intelligence Agency, or any other
US Government agency.
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As of June 1995, Geographic Resources Division was renamed Conflict Issues Division.
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RTT 95-10039
October I995
Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268

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