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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.
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CU0l23268 Forests, Ronald A., "Amazonia and the Politics of historical background and analysis of the Guyanese Geopolitics," The GeographicalReview, 82/2 (1992), situation through the end of the Burnham era. pp. 128-42. Article contains a review of Brazilian geo- political thought and discusses the ways in which its .Kimmerling, Judith, Amazon Crude. Natural application has affected Amazonian development. Resources Defense Council, 1991. An informative but polemical report on the impact of oil production on Gopal, Manan M., Politics,Race, and Youth in Guy- the environment and people of the Ecuadorian Ama- ana. San Francisco: Mellen Research University zon. Press, 1992. This study of the attitudes of Indian youth toward changes in race relations in Guyana contains Little, Paul E., EcologiaPoliticadel Cuyabeno: interesting information on the history of race relations El Desarrollono Sostenible de la Amazonia. Quito: in the country. The author concludes that there is con- Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones siderable sentiment on the part of Guayanese citizens Sociales (ILDOS) y Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. A (as expressed by the youths who were interviewed) for timely analysis of impacts of oil exploration and pro- unity across racial lines but that government manipu- duction on Ecuador's Cuyabeno National Park and its lation of the electoral process prevented this from hap- population. This book is a useful introduction to the pening. principal points of conflict within the Ecuadorian Amazon. Greenberg, James B., Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico. Tucson: The University of Arizona Mallon, Florencia E., "Indian Communities, Political Press, 1989. Analyzes violence in rural Mexico Cultures, and the State in Latin America, 1780-1990," through use of the biography of an Indian man from JournalofLatin American Studies, 24: Quincentenary the village of Yaitepec, followed by scholarly analysis Supplement (1992), pp. 35-53. A review of the history of the reasons for violence. See especially chapter of the role of indigenous political cultures to the for- 12 on land conflicts and the following Part II, "Expla- mation of nation-states in Latin America. The author nations of Rural Violence in Mexico." concludes that Indian movements will play an increas- ingly important role in resolving the region's cultural Hecht, Susanna and Alexander Cockburn, The Fate of and environmental conflicts. the Forest:Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. London & New York: Verso, 1989. This Mars, Perry, "Ethnic Conflict and Political Control: book has become one of the most quoted sources on The Guyana Case," Social and Economic Studies, the policies and processes that account for environ- 39:3 (1990), pp. 65-94. A review of the history of eth- mental and human destruction in the Amazon Basin. nic conflict in Guyana before and following indepen- The focus is on Brazil. This book is essential reading dence and up to the death of Forbes Burnham in 1985. for background on ethnic conflict in the South Ameri- The author concludes that there is a close connection can lowlands, between ethnic conflict and class conflict. Also, ethnic conflict varied depending on the nature of the political Hemming, John, ed., "The Frontier After a Decade of environment, with pluralist pre-independence systems Colonization," Changein the Amazon Basin, vol. II, leading to relatively peaceful relationships while the Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. A authoritarian Burnham government intensified ethnic collection of 20 papers that deal with the impact of conflict. colonization in the Amazon Basin. This volume deals with the processes and impacts of colonization but not Nietschnamm, Bernard, "The Third World War," Cul- explicitly with ethnic conflict. tural Survival Quarterly, 11:3 (1987), pp. 1-6I h recognized expert on ethnic conflict among geogra- Jeffrey, Henry B. and Colin Baber, Guyana: Politics, phers reviews conflicts between states and "autono- Economics and Society, Beyond the Burnham Era. mous nations," (traditional ethnic minorities) around London: Francis Pinter and Boulder, CO: Lynne the world. A fundamental introduction to the topic. Rienner, 1986. A survey that provides interesting 94
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