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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 second question is: how do we evaluate the poli- DR. MURPHY: The United States has an interest in a cies of individual states in relation to minority groups, stable and economically vital Europe. This would sug- in particular, territorial policies? There was an gest that it is in the US interest to promote the kind of extended discussion in the paper of the Basque situa- policy options that lead to stability from an ethnic tion, where power has been devolved to regions of a standpoint. That may mean some of the kinds of terri- quasiautonomous nature. Despite this devolution, a torial policies that I suggested. It also means that the continuation of fairly strong anti-Madrid bias can still United States should promote the idea of a European be seen in voting patterns in Spain. At the same time, Community that does not just look like a much more overt violence has been reduced. This raises questions centralized community but one that actually facilitates about the impact of state policies that acknowledge the kinds of regional linkages that Dr. Williams has the existence of ethnic concentrations and use territo- outlined. We should be not be scared of the fact that rial policies to incorporate ethnic groups in the deci- the nation-state is changing. It is in the US interest to sionmaking process. It may mean-as has happened promote the kind of regional arrangements that will to a degree in the Basque case-that bringing a sepa- lead to a more stable and outward-looking Europe. ratist group into the decisionmaking structure may marginalize the more violent elements of the group. General Discussion QUESTION: With regard to ethnic issues, what poli- cies are likely to best promote US interests in the region? 58
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