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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 Wt E Lmajor challenge facing us is in interpreting the trends Western Europe 's Lesser Used Languages that emerge as a result of the disjuncture between the Belgium Italy formally structured political units-at whatever scale German French (Franco-Provencal) from local to superstructural-and the actual social Occitan behavior of an increasingly autonomous and individu- Denmark German alistic citizenry. Coping with this new complex reality German Ladin by learning to read between the lines will be the chief Slovene social skill required of both active citizen and special- France Friulan ist observer alike. Let me end by raising a few critical Breton Sard questions that geographers and others will need to Catalan Catalan address if Europe is to honor the basic rights of all its Basque Greek constituent citizens: Corsican Croatian Dutch Albanian e On what basis will the new European identity be German/Alsatian constructed-federal, regional, racial, or national? Occitan Luxembourg Letzebuergesch * What effect will the enlargement of the European Germany Union have on the internal ethnolinguistic and North Frisian Netherlands regional management of the Community? East Frisian West Frisian Danish * To what extent will border tensions spill into Com- Polish Spain munity states, and how will these effect the grand Catalan design of opening up the frontiers of Europe? Greece Gallego Arvinite Basque * How permeable are the new frontiers of the Euro- Turkish Occitan pean Community? Macedonian Vlak United Kingdom * Will ethnicity, as a base for social mobilization, Gaelic increase or decrease with greater political-economic Ireland Scots integration? Irish Cornish Irish - How will political organizations, especially metro- Welsh politan authorities, cope with the increased diversity of their constituent citizens and the newly enfran- chised rights of cultural pluralism? e What role will territory and place have in structuring Conclusion the life chances of hitherto discriminated minorities? Ethnic mobilization is so often a surrogate for other - Will we have a nested hierarchy of disadvantage issues such as political struggle, economic depriva- aggravated by global economic changes inducing tion, and psychological adjustment to the status quo. the expansion of domination and dependence of the Ethnic issues, whether as purposive or reactive ele- poor and the racially distinct? ments, are likely to increase in their salience as West- ern Europe avers a more open, pluralistic society. e Who controls access to information within the Geographers can play an important role in analyzing mother tongue and the working languages of the the conventional elements of migration, distribution, European minorities? and territorial organization of society. However, the 53
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