And you have to, then, broker a whole set of potential ethnic conflicts that may arise.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Prime Minister Tusk Press Conference
Underlying almost all the ethnic conflicts in Indonesia are economic imbalances--and righting that equation will be the single biggest challenge for the next government.
Ethnic conflicts around the borders of Myanmar have simmered for decades.
Also on 22 December, President Gorbachev issued a presidential decree threatening to take unspecified "necessary measures" in Moldavia unless steps were taken to end inter-ethnic conflicts in the republic.
That includes building credible government institutions, establishing rule of law, ending ethnic conflicts, and ensuring that the people of this country have access to greater education, health care, and economic opportunity.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi Deliver Remarks
Mr. Obama, who last year became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, lauded the release of political prisoners, the completion of credible elections and Mr. Thein Sein's efforts to resolve ethnic conflicts.
The killing of as many as 50 ethnic Kikuyus Tuesday as they sheltered in a church in the city of Eldoret fueled concern that ethnic conflicts were deepening in the east African nation.
There is much work to be done to foster peace and reconciliation in other ethnic conflicts, develop the justice sector, and cultivate the free press and robust civil society that are the checks and balances needed in any stable democracy.
The South East Asian nation was plagued by ethnic tension and conflicts in its early history in the 1960s.
The nation has long been troubled by ethnic and religious conflicts, but in Darfur, the tribes, united by Islam, have coexisted well for more than a century.
Throughout the last decades, the world has witnessed several situations in which built or intangible heritage has been at the core of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
In many parts of the world -- let's say, in the continent of Africa -- there are ethnic and tribal conflicts that are very hard to resolve.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds Town Hall with Chinese Youth
Paris, April 3 - From Bamyan to Jerusalem or Sarajevo, in the past few years cultural heritage has often been a military target or the flashpoint of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
Catholicism is also a strong cultural influence in Africa's continuing search for answers to the challenges of poverty, diseases, ethnic and religious conflicts, wars, political and economic problems, radical Islamic fundamentalism, and how to mitigate the effects of climate change and natural disasters.
Burma's new military-backed civilian government - which has embarked on a series of reforms since elections in November 2010 - has pledged to resolve conflicts in border areas with ethnic minority groups.
These workshops enabled an initial group of women from different religions, cultures and ethnic backgrounds to be trained as mediators in conflicts and in the education of children traumatized by war or affected by pandemics.
And both conflicts have prompted us to wonder, how do members of opposing ethnic or religious groups tell each other apart?
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