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	Ethnic tension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethnic tension is a term referring to tension between different ethnic groups.
		This can be caused by many different factors, all of them various social inequalities, ranging from a lack of wealth to intentional malice.
		If left untreated, it may start an ethnic war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnic_tension (81 words)

	Mission
		In short, some level of ethnic conflict, ranging from fairly peaceful to extremely violent is the norm, not the exception in the modern world.
		Also, there have been cases in which relatively severe ethnic tension, even warfare, have been resolved, or are being resolved through compromise and reconciliation.
		Malaysian ethnic relations are also far more harmonious than they were 30 years ago when it seemed as if the Chinese and Malays were headed toward outright ethnic warfare.
	depts.washington.edu /ethpeace/mission.htm (455 words)

	Calming Ethnic Tension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Currently, ethnic tensions do exist between three groups of people, the Serbians against the ethnic Albanians, the rebel groups against the Congolese government, and also the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
		Ethnic issue also have risen in the Congo, between the ethnic Tusti Congolese (long ago immigrants from Rwanda) and the Hutus.
		Although this is a war based on political and economical issues, this has led to a division of groups for and against the Congolese government, leading to ethnic tensions between these people, and consequently almost two million people have died and thousands are left homeless.
	www.bronxville.k12.ny.us /Model%20UN/Issue%20Archive/1st%20Committee/ethnic_tension.htm (927 words)

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		Conducted under deep social and economic crisis, the politics of ethnonationalism was followed by the rise of ethnic competition, interethnic tension and the mass exodus of the Russians from Kazakstan to Russia.
		This change in the nationalities policy of the state has caused the reduction of interethnic tension and the number of migrants from Kazakstan (in 1996 this number was reduced by 3.2 times opposite to that of 1994).
		In Kazakstan the main obstacle for nationbuilding is the ethnic division of the population, particularly between the Kazaks and the Russians.
	www.unesco.org /most/essckadyrz.doc (1341 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Ethnic tension over Ukraine land disputes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		With their own homes mostly occupied by ethnic Russians and Ukrainians settled there by the authorities, Tatars were given land -- or just took it, squatting in mud huts or tarpaper shacks -- and built homes of sand-yellow brick that now dot the peninsula.
		Tension has increased as Tatars seek land on Crimea's lush southern coast, meeting fierce resistance from local authorities clinging to control over lucrative real estate in what was the Soviet Union's most desirable vacation destination.
		Non-Tatars in Crimea, where ethnic Russians are the majority, dispute the historical claim to the land.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/05/18/ethnic_tension_over_ukraine_land_disputes (780 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Police Deployed to Calm Ethnic Tension in North-eastern Liberia
		Ethnic Mano and Mandingoe have been rioting in Ganta, Nimba county, some 220 km from Monrovia since the weekend, leaving the urban centre deserted and some homes and businesses looted.
		The ethnic Mano and their Gio relations, upon hearing that the Mandingoe were gearing up to burn down the town, went on the rampage in search of the Mandingoe and looting their homes.
		The situation degenerated until riot police from Monrovia and neighbouring Bong County were sent to restore normalcy to the town that lies at the crossroads of south- eastern Liberia and the rest of the country.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/5ebfd9aaa27d09508525697500689fcb (434 words)

	Pennsylvania Inter-Agency Task Force on Civil Tension
		The Inter-Agency Task Force on Civil Tension is convened by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and is coordinated by that agency's Director of Education and Community Services.
		Reduce tensions and violence between individuals and groups related to their race, color, religion or national origin.
		Respond to tension situations with maximum communication, cooperation, and coordination among the agencies represented on the Tension Task Force and with local government officials and community groups and representatives.
	www.phrc.state.pa.us /PA_Exec/PHRC/bias/bias_task_force.html (718 words)

	Ghana Ethnic Groups
		Ethnic rivalries of the precolonial era, variance in the impact of colonialism upon different regions of the country, and the uneven distribution of social and economic amenities in postindependence Ghana have all contributed to present-day ethnic tensions.
		Although this violence was certainly evidence of ethnic tension in the country, most observers agreed that the case in point was exceptional.
		One overriding feature of the country's ethnic population is that groups to the south who are closer to the Atlantic coast have long been influenced by the money economy, Western education, and Christianity, whereas Gur-speakers to the north, who have been less exposed to those influences, have came under Islamic influence.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/tribes (733 words)

	CNN.com - Ethnic tension simmers in Macedonia - March 9, 2001
		TIRANA, Albania -- Ever since Yugoslavia's break-up in the early 1990s, ethnic Albanians in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have claimed that their share of the population is larger than government estimates.
		Ethnic Albanians, who say they make up about 40 percent of the population, accuse the Slavic Macedonian-controlled government of deliberately downplaying their numbers.
		Ethnic Albanians now control key ministries in the government, there are many ethnic Albanian police officers in the Tetovo area and the plan for a new Tetovo university is widely seen as a success.
	www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/09/macedonia.analysis/index.html (543 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies
		Even though ethnic conflicts in Russia are localized while their nature is growing more specific they still remain one of the priorities and one of the typical features of Russian society today.
		There is no agreement on the key concepts: an ethnic conflict and its derivatives (conflict potential and ethnic tension).
		An ethnic conflict is one of the types of social confrontation in which at least one of the sides describes itself as an ethnic community.
	www.ca-c.org /journal/2004-03-eng/07.savprimen.shtml (294 words)

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		To do so, various understanding (theories) of ethnic (communal) conflict and violence; of the nature and causes of intense nationalism, including trans-border irredentism movements; and of the nature, under-pinnings and consequences of democratization, will be considered.
		The theoretical focus of the course is on the link between the disintegration of Twentieth Century “Ancient Regimes” and the rise of democracy, ethnic tension, and nationalist and irredentist conflict in the context of the modern state.
		The second essay should explore a case of ethnic or nationalist conflict, including sources and causes, patterns of conflict, efforts to resolve it and their success, current situation, and prospects for the future.
	puffin.creighton.edu /pls/Syllabi/PLS405.doc (1431 words)

	Burning the Oil - Development and Inter-Ethnic Tension
		Its people are destitute and unemployed, the crime rate is ghastly, the army and police are murderous (as are numerous civilian "vigilante" groups), the authorities powerless, corruption rampant, famines frequent.
		It is now an integral part of the national politics of a Nigeria fracturing along ethnic and religious (Christian vs. fundamentalist Islamist) fault lines.
		The Sahrawis quote a UN resolution (A/res/46/64 dated December 11, 1991) which says that "the exploitation and plundering of colonial and non-self-governing territories by foreign economic interests, in violation of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations is a grave threat to the integrity and prosperity of those Territories."
	samvak.tripod.com /pp108.html (1771 words)

	Shooting Raises Tension Ahead of Macedonia Vote
		The killing fueled fears that extremists opposed to a Western-backed peace plan which eased the country back from the brink of civil war last year were bent on wrecking Sunday's ballot and fomenting new unrest.
		A police spokesman said the reservist, an ethnic Albanian himself, was killed by 10 gunmen who drove up and opened fire with machineguns on five officers at a remote police post in the village Bogovinje in the Tetovo valley.
		The attack came just three weeks after two police officers were gunned down by ethnic Albanian gunmen in the same area, in what the government said was an attempt to wreck the Balkan country's September 15 election.
	www.ecoi.net /pub/nz146_00881mac.htm (465 words)

	Kenya Safari and Beach Holidays: Ethnic Tension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Kenyaâs vice president, an ethnic Luo named Oginga Odinga, resigned from the government in 1966 and formed the Kenya Peopleâs Union (KPU), which drew a great deal of Luo support away from KANU and presented the Kenyatta government with a challenge.
		Kenyatta made appeals for ethnic solidarity among Kikuyu, and many Kikuyu achieved influence and considerable wealth under his rule.
		However, the president resisted attempts by Kikuyu to remove his vice president, an ethnic Kalenjin named Daniel arap Moi, from the position of successor.
	www.madukha.com /2005/02/ethnic-tension.html (164 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Ethnic tension divides Kirkuk
		The US army's heavy-handed approach and their lack of understanding of the area have caused numerous similar incidents and have contributed to rising tensions in the city.
		This unsettled issue is causing tension between the Kurds and the Arabs in the city.
		Like the police force, the city council is also divided among the four ethnic groups equally, regardless of the actual percentage of each group within the population.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2935362.stm (876 words)

	Solomons warns of returning to worse conflict in the future -- Asia-Pacific Network \| Cafe Pacific \| Toktok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		He said the two most crucial issues are related to the foreign ownership of the national economy, which has given raise to foreign resistant to structural reform that aimed at correcting the wrongs of the past, and the foreign ownership of the restoration of peace in the Solomons.
		He said the situation was precarious because his government known as the government for change was widely perceived by foreign investors - a threat to their very basis of accumulation of wealth.
		Ulufaalu claimed that: they (investors) were the architectures and designers of the ethnic tension, adding there was no ethnic tension in fact in the beginning because the former Guadalcanal Revolutionary Army (BRA), was made up of people from all provinces.
	www.voy.com /166638/80.html (1627 words)

	Tolerance.org: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Ethnic Tension?
		In San Francisco and in cities across the country, ethnic communities are "coming out" in full force, forming their own religious coalitions and organizing protests to oppose same-sex marriage.
		Ethnic Christian coalitions are at the forefront of the movement against same-sex marriage.
		Ethnic groups in San Francisco are far less supportive of the city's decision to issue marriage licenses to gays and lesbians than the city's white population, according to a citywide poll of 1,034 people conducted on March 2, 2004, by the Chinese American Voters Education Committee.
	www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=1010 (1107 words)

	US Entangled in Hotbed of Ethnic Tension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Yet ethnic tensions in the city are raising the spectre of civil war.
		Free from the ironclad repression of Saddam Hussein‘s Baathist regime, Iraq‘s matrix of ethnic and sectarian groups are clamouring to secure their position in the post-Saddam era.
		The third largest ethnic group in Iraq after Arabs and Kurds, the Turkomen accuse the Kurds of seizing government posts; filling the new police force with Kurdish peshmerga from towns further north; and flying the Kurdish flag in streets and on buildings throughout Kirkuk.
	www.globalprofile.co.uk /55 (1481 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| Ethnic tension, boycott threats loom large over Kosovo vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The vote for the 120 seats of the provincial assembly is seen as a test of the international community’s efforts to build a multiethnic democracy in the southern Serbian province, which has been administered by the UN since NATO bombing forced Serbian troops to withdraw in June 1999.
		The Serb minority says it is bearing the brunt of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority and, blaming the international community for failing to provide security, has vowed to boycott the poll.
		The main ethnic Albanian parties — the Democratic League of Kosovo of the province’s president, Ibrahim Rugova, and the Democratic Party of Kosovo of former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci — are tipped to gain 30 to 40 seats each.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_world_974805_21/10/2004_48621 (647 words)

	Worldandnation: Ethnic tension, harassment mar Rwanda's first multiparty vote
		Ethnic tension, harassment mar Rwanda's first multiparty vote
		His main rival, Faustin Twagiramungu, stayed home and rebutted allegations that he raised tensions between the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis.
		The vote Monday has been billed as a showcase for how far Rwanda has come in the nine years since an extremist Hutu government, afraid of losing power, orchestrated a 100-day slaughter of a half-million people, mostly minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/08/24/news_pf/Worldandnation/Ethnic_tension__haras.shtml (533 words)

	NATO Update: Analysing ethnic tension in the Caucasus and Siberia - 23-24 October 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Participants shared their findings on ethnic conflicts and came to the conclusion that the result of their research did not support public reports of dramatically increased immigration figures and links between immigration and crime.
		They also exchanged their sometimes unsuccessful experiences in trying to communicate these academic findings to regional government structures in order to help in the management of ethnic tensions in the Caucasus and Russian Siberia.
		In addition to the intensity of the discussions during the seminar which allowed researchers to compare and share their findings, the event will have practical implications since a collection of papers will be collated to highlight the various factors that do affect ethnic stability in the Caucasus and Siberia.
	www.nato.int /docu/update/2003/10-october/e1023b.htm (231 words)

	UNRISD: Publications \| Managing Ethnic Relations in Post-Crisis Malaysia and Indonesia: Lessons from the New Economic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Instances of ethnic animosity were not unknown during the New Order period, and a few of the more recent outbreaks had occurred just before the crisis in Suharto’s regime.
		NEP encom-passed state policies that affected ethnic identities, interethnic power sharing, and an ethnically targeted distribution of developmental benefits, but was not confined to these issues alone.
		Consequently, while NEP was commonly seen as “ethnic” in conception, its implementation and subsequent adjustments radically recomposed the class structure of Malaysian society, altered the balance of power between different economic and social groupings, and entrenched the role of the state in the economy.
	www.unrisd.org /80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpPublications)/22E1E0E487E13A1F80256B6D005786B7?OpenDocument&panel=newsviews (741 words)

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		The 20-year old youth was shot dead by a trader from the Peul ethnic group who thought the intruder entering his compound was a thief.
		The Peul and the Malinke are the two main ethnic groups in Guinea, accounting for 40 percent and 30 percent of the population respectively, according to US government statistics.
		President Lansana Conte, who came to power in a coup in 1984, is from the Soussou ethnic group that makes up only 10 percent of the population - according to the US government - but can be found in positions of power and authority across the country.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=48242&SelectRegion=West_Africa (633 words)

	30Days - Ethnic tension and peace process in Sri Lanka
		Ethnic tension and peace process in Sri Lanka
		The largest ethnic group is that of the Sinhalese (about 74%, very largely Buddhist), followed by the Tamil (about 13%, almost all Hindu) and by the Moors (7%, Moslem).
		At the end of 2001 negotiations began that led to the signing of a ceasefire on 22 February 2002.
	www.30giorni.it /us/articolo.asp?id=7881 (167 words)

	Nationalism and Ethnic Tension in Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The dissatisfaction associated with poor economic times is often associated with a rise in ethnic tensions, and the middle and late 1990s were a period of escalating ethnic tension and racism in Europe.
		In the same period, several longstanding ethnic struggles for national self-determination, notably that of the Basque people in Spain and the people of Northern Ireland escalated in violence and public profile.
		Until Franco's death and the collapse of the fascist dictatorship he controlled in the 1980s, ethnic tensions were largely contained by totalitarianism.
	www.mts.net /~gcg/resources/europe/index05.html (790 words)

	Sri Lanka: Ethnic Violence Escalates (Human Rights Watch, 1-11-2000)
		With ethnic tension already so high, failure to address these highly-charged issues could be explosive.
		A sharp rise in communal tensions has followed the attack, with some Sri Lankans describing the situation as worse than at any time in the last twenty years.
		Ethnic clashes and large-scale riots erupted in Sri Lanka's central hill districts following the Tamil-led protests against the massacre.
	www.hrw.org /press/2000/11/srilanka1101.htm (558 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Ethnic tension mars Kosovo polls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The vote on Saturday for the 120-seat assembly is seen as a test of the international community's efforts to build a multi-ethnic democracy in the southern Serbian province, administered by the United Nations since Nato forced Serbian troops to withdraw in June 1999.
		But it has been marred by calls for ethnic Serbs to boycott the vote over security fears after 19 people died when mobs from the ethnic Albanian majority rioted through Serb villages in March, the worst violence since the war.
		Ethnic Albanians demand complete independence from Serbia, but ethnic Serbs and the government in Belgrade insist that the territory is an inalienable part of the former Yugoslav republic.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/5E4CE5A2-C1C0-46E2-9382-247DB85CFB9F.htm (573 words)

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