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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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Today, we have 53 states in Europe; there were 32 in organs, the Trusteeship Council, has virtually nothing
1991.That is a major change. It is the largest change to do any longer. There is no reason why the Council
in Europe since 1917 or 1648, depending on how you should not be transformed into a Human Rights Coun-
look at it. It has been done largely without violence cil and be run by a high commissioner for human
and largely within a relatively democratic context, and rights, who would have greatly expanded powers.
it has been agreed to by those states. The United
States has recognized those states: the Czech Repub- While very few nations are not guilty of some
lic, Slovakia, the Baltic states, and the other states that excesses in regard to human rights, some are much
have emerged from the former Soviet Union, as well worse than others, and those are the ones that have to
as those from Yugoslavia. be tackled first. We need an agency with legitimacy to
do that.
So it is possible to reconcile the idea ofaccepting the
concept of territorial integrity and that of peaceful The UN can do that. It will make mistakes to be sure.
changes of borders. It is difficult, but I do not see any but we should get behind the UN and give it power to
major intellectual pitfall. I think US policy has cer- address global problems. Global problems require glo-
tainly evolved over the last two years on this quest. bal solutions. The UN ought to be the global instru-
ment.
DR. SCHWARTZBERG: One of the things that I
think we can do is to try to empower the only interna-
tional organization that ought to have universal legiti-
macy-the United Nations. One of the UN's major
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