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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 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 r 177
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.