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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 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." 185
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