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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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C00123268
The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict
to National and International
Order in the 1990s: Geographic
Perspectives
Scope Note This report contains the proceedings from a conference entitled, The Chal-
lenge of Ethnic Conflict to NationalandInternationalOrder in the 1990s:
GeographicPerspectives,which took place from 30 September to 1 October
1993. The conference was sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency's
Geographic Resources Division.' It featured academic geographers and
anthropologists who are specialists in ethnic issues and US Government offi-
cials with practical experience in dealing with the consequences of ethnic
conflict.
This report contains the papers that the participants presented as well as the
key points of the discussions that followed. Where appropriate, the authors
have updated their papers to reflect events since the conference. The views
herein are those of the individual participants and not necessarily those of
their affiliated organizations, the Central Intelligence Agency, or any other
US Government agency.
As of June 1995, Geographic Resources Division was renamed Conflict Issues Division.
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