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1995-10-01a- CIA Conference Report: THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER IN THE 1990S GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES 01-Oct-95

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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.

  • p. 9 …issues in Western Europe, highlighting the most press- United States and the international community. ing and…
  • p. 30 …Oxford University Press, 1993. Gottmann, Jean. The Significance of Territory Charlottesville: The University Press of Parker…
  • p. 35 …the media and education, Introduction native language press, or freedom of religion) that do not threaten…
  • p. 75 …It may also be true that the demographic status of two Most autonomous units of the…
  • p. 77 …University of Durham International Boundaries Drobizheva, Leokadia. "Etnicheskoye samosoz- Research Unit (IBRU) Press (Territory Briefing 2…
  • p. 85 …wake of the World Trade Center bombing, when the United States declared Sudan a "terrorist state…
  • p. 87 …as they are in Nigeria, Africa's United States. Zaire's taking sides in Angola's…
  • p. 95 …Core area Indians may unite with lowland Indians to promote 3These estimates of Indian population fall…
  • p. 106 …The Trinidadian press is quite con- had enough. cerned with the general upswing in violence. Is…
  • p. 118 …to more strongly assert their identities, United States. pressing the government for further recognition, autonomy, and…
  • p. 192 …A Margaret Thatcher to Andrey Sakharov have credited united and prosperous European Community, they the 1975…
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However, many of them have regional loyalties that DR. CRYSTAL: The animosity toward the Vietnam-
Beijing can no longer trust. The economic discrepan- ese remains the most significant source of ethnic ten-
cies between the south and east, on the one hand, and sion. Hopefully, this tortured land will have some time
the north and west, on the other, are extraordinary. You to reconstitute its policy. The Vietnamese have with-
have the Fourth World and Firat World side by side in drawn, the United States seems to have played a
one country. The people in the south are becoming benign role during this recent election, and the UN
very tired of carrying the north. I think Hong Kong peacekeeping force was a success-despite the pre-
may be an issue. I think, in some ways, a military diction of most everyone. Hopefully, we can look for-
buildup may be also for domestic concerns. I do not ward to a time when these inflamed ethnic passions
think people have focused on that issue. will subside.
COMMENT: Dr. Crystal, when you spoke of Cambo-
dia, you focused mostly on the anti-Vietnamese senti-
ment. What are your thoughts on the country's other
ethnic problems?
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