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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.
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- p. 50 …Muslim Serbs and Muslim Croats never defined them-
selves as a people. They never said that…
- p. 51 …If the
standing why the Albanians never claimed Kosovo. Serbs really attempt to annihilate the Kosovar…
- p. 62 …be taught as a second foreign language, never of relative insulation from other countries' problems
as…
- p. 78 …It never majority? Should the leftover colonials learn the
was. It might be useful, instead, to…
- p. 91 …As such, the
ability of states to get from their people what they
want has never…
- p. 92 …much as they fight with other groups, and the same The peoples of Africa never chose…
- p. 93 …I never would have sent them in the
about election monitors. Is that sufficient to tide…
- p. 109 …the provisions of this agreement were never imple-
mented, and Kurdish autonomy became a dead issue…
- p. 110 …only by those remaining in Lebanon, that prospect was
never accepted by Muslims. The absence of…
- p. 112 …field, several cities, and a population of never known democracy. Other hopes can be enter-
15…
- p. 114 …But in this region we can never say never, as evi-
Discussant: Mildred Berman denced by…
- p. 116 …Although Sovietologists could never have predicted
Introduction: The Disuniting of China the rapid events that dismantled…
- p. 119 …The Chinese, in my opinion, never take China for
granted, culturally, politically, or otherwise. This is…
- p. 120 …Few
have questioned how the Han became the 94-percent
National identities, although imagined, are never…
- p. 121 …be one reason why these categories have never been China is made crystal clear from his…
- p. 123 …The Uighur will known as a "Ku Cong" nationalist, seeking recogni-
never become independent as long…
- p. 133 …such actions are sometimes trag- conflict should never be justified. Intervention, as we
edies writ in…
- p. 141 …guarantee Sociocultural identities in South Asia have never been
some semblance of fair representation in the…
- p. 147 …Although never posing a tional sentiment in regard to the controversial destruc-
serious challenge to Congress…
- p. 157 …The people in Kashmir are never represented the Sikh rank and file.
alienated to a degree…
- p. 166 …These are the people who
have never had any form of internationally recognized
status and who…
- p. 169 …as we should not underestimate the state boundaries in
illegal immigrants and never get counted.
159
- p. 177 …The French nation never managed to incorpo-
not co-opt civilians speaking German, Italian, and rate…
- p. 186 …still hate Turks is that there has never been context is a complicated array of things…
- p. 204 …In alluding to the statement by
You are never going to have total agreement on mov…
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There is some relationship to the well-being of a state that the world wants to emulate and, yet, this indeed is
that has chances of overcoming ethnic disrepair and happening all the time. It is the redundancy of this
the economic downturn that might presage it. This pathology that I find so depressing.
relates a little bit also to what Dr. Fuller said earlier. It
might also mean that we ought to think twice before QUESTION: If this policy of nonrecognition is a key
we use sanctions and economic destruction to achieve aggravating factor, can you identify the flip side of
our aims in a foreign country. I still feel that, had sanc- that? Can you put a name on a key ameliorating factor
tions not been imposed on South Africa, the democra- that is helping to contain that?
tization process might have taken longer but would
have cost far fewer lives and have had a more satisfac- DR. MIKESELL: That would involve cases where
tory outcome. there seems to be accommodation, such as the extraor-
dinary examples of Finland, where a minority group
DR. MIKESELL: I would say of all national policies, was made a partner from the beginning. In this case,
the one that is most likely to result in violence is non- the Finns anticipated the needs of the Swedish minor-
recognition; to say simply, "Ypu don't exist. Your lan- ity, rather than waiting until the Swedes were shouting
guage is merely a dialect. Your religion is a and demonstrating. Unfortunately, there are very few
heterodoxy." It drives people crazy to be told that they examples of this enlightened policy.
do not exist. It hardly seems conceivable that Musso-
lini's policy toward South Tyrol would be the model
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