1995-10-01a- CIA Conference Report: THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER IN THE 1990S GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES 01-Oct-95

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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energy sources since the pipelines from Azerbaijan
and Georgia have been cut. Fnvironmentalism is on
the back burner and has been decoupled from nation-
alism in these kinds of economic decision making pro-
cesses. Environmentalism was promoted when it was
useful to the nationalists and their struggle for inde-
pendence, but it is now seen as competing with the
nations' efforts to be less dependent on external
resources--especially those supplied by Russia.
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