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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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far-reaching weapons and technology. So the Defense partnership to either prevent or to contain conflict.
Department, and the US Government in general, has We need to work together in a variety of multilateral
quite an interest in this phenomenon and is trying to and bilateral ways to marshal all those resources
understand it and construct a strategy to address it. together as a partnership for addressing the issue.
In attempting to grapple with this issue, initial think- The government needs much more analysis to under-
ing on a Clinton national security strategy has focused stand in a robust way the phenomenon of ethnic and
on three elements: 2 national conflict. We need academic researchers to
turn toward applied robust, rigorous, and predictive
- Engagement. The United Slates is committed to research that we can bring inside the government in
remaining engaged in international affairs. testable ways and see if we can motivate policy. We
are not interested in sponsoring more original
- Prevention.We want to prevent or contain the research; as Dr. Ted Gurr wrote in his book on conflict
effects of ethnic conflict. We want to use all the ele- a few years ago, there are 686 books on the theory of
ments of national power, development assistance, conflict-we do not want a 687th. What we want are
and trade assistance to prevent conflict, and, if that robust, testable, applied research and models that we
does not work, we want to act early to keep the con- can bring inside the government. We take this problem
flict small. seriously. It is a critical issue of US national security.
- Partnership.We want to expand the core group of
like-minded democratic coontries that we forged
during the Cold War and have this group work as a
2 In July 1994, the Clinton Administration published its first com-
prehensive national security strategy, which used as its concep-
tional framework the elements of "engagement" and
"enlargement."
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