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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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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-are 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 flows 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 disrupts the entire state. If that is done, governments will be able at least to reduce the trauma of forced migrants and refugees, if not eliminate the cause of their move- ment altogether. 164
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