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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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Finally, there is much discussion these days about and "y" to another, those are best examined in trans-
inventing and reinventing institutions. These terms disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts. To accom-
potentially could usher in new thinking in universities, plish this will most likely call for an overhaul of many
governments, and the private sector. The major issues of the ways we learn, conduct business, and solve
of the next 25 to 50 years will call for specialists problems. This is a challenge best met by transdisci-
trained differently than in the past and today. Already plinarians and by specialists who look both backward
I have indicated that information, communication, and forward and have both local and global outlooks.
environment, religion, conflict, and secularization
need to be pervasive threads in learning and practice.
Rather than delegating "x" subject to one discipline
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