In Kosovo, in particular, the international protectorate's claim to be fashioning a law-governed, multi-ethnic state is wearing thin.
The idea of partition is intolerable to the UN administration in Kosovo, committed to a single multi-ethnic state.
The solution was that the new Turkish state would not be an ethnic state - it would be blind to the ethnicity of its people.
We believe that with the help of international observers, governance in these zones can evolve into responsible ethnic state governance that secures the rights of all.
Turning to fears that Kosovo will become a purely ethnic Albanian state, he pointed to the various ethnic groups among the US troops and said they should be an example of how different peoples could live together.
Protracted though the judicial process may be, Fiji is finally settling some important scores with those who sought to establish an ethnic supremacist state in the midst of the South Pacific four years ago.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- As pressure mounts for someone to save the faltering Bosnian peace process by arresting indicted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the two continue to run 49 percent of Bosnia as an ethnic separatist state.
The plan calls for a ceasefire, amnesty for most rebels who disarm voluntarily and greater inclusion of ethnic Albanians in state bodies and institutions.
But the Buddhist-backed New Komeito is still smouldering over Mr Mori's allusions to the ethnic purity of state-sponsored Shintoism, and may demand Mr Mori's head as the price for staying in the coalition.
Although its war in Iraq serves their goal of preventing a post-Saddam Iraq from developing into a coherent, multi-ethnic, stable state governed by the rule of law, al-Qaida is not an Iranian (or Syrian) organization.
The country's western state has been rocked recently by ethnic violence that prompted a state of emergency.
The problem with the state of Israel and the Zionist lobby is that they never acknowledge the crime of ethnic cleansing on which the state was founded.
On recent trends, Hispanics will be the largest ethnic group in the state by 2015.
Ethnic Albanians were promised state funds for a university and more jobs in the army, police and civil service.
This ethnic-Albanian shadow state and Serbia have so far avoided war thanks to Mr Rugova's urging of his people to eschew violence and Mr Milosevic's reluctance to repeat the brutal ethnic cleansing that failed to stretch Serbia's borders into Bosnia and Croatia.
The precise ethnic groupings which exist in a State, the significance of ethnicity for social participation in societal institutions and the processes through which ethnic differentiation is constructed and maintained may vary considerably between individual States, and over time.
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been displaced by ethnic violence in western Burma's Rakhine state, while in recent months there has been conflict between ethnic Kachin fighters and the Burmese military in the north-east.
In 2008, ethnic Albanians declared an independent state, which has been recognised by around 80 countries.
Ethnic conflict in western Rakhine state has left more than 100, 000 Muslim Rohingyas displaced.
For too long, the people of this state, including ethnic Rakhine, have faced crushing poverty and persecution.
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But you also see beyond those specific ethnic insurgencies, outbreaks of ethnic violence like in Rakhine state, where the Rohingya have been targeted by local population.
The government has accused the rebels of using civilians as human shields in their five-month-old campaign for greater rights for the Balkan state's ethnic Albanian minority.
Sri Lanka's military is on a major offensive to try to crush the Tigers and end their fight for an independent state for the ethnic Tamil minority.
The establishment of the sought-for Palestinian state presupposes the ethnic cleansing of at a minimum 80, 000 Israelis from their homes and communities simply because they are Jews.
Many members of Burma's Muslim Rohingya group have been trying to flee in the past few months, after ethnic violence in the Burmese state of Rakhine left tens of thousands displaced.
Many members of Burma's Muslim Rohingya group have been been trying to flee in the past few months, after ethnic violence in the Burmese state of Rakhine left tens of thousands displaced.
With the optimism, energy and determination characteristic of its people, Kosovo has made significant progress in solidifying the gains of independence and in building the institutions of a modern, multi-ethnic, inclusive and democratic state.
In recent months more members of the Muslim Rohingya group have been been trying to make their way to Malaysia, after ethnic violence in the Burmese state of Rakhine left tens of thousands displaced.
"With the optimism, energy and determination characteristic of its people, Kosovo has made significant progress in solidifying the gains of independence and in building the institutions of a modern, multi-ethnic, inclusive and democratic state, " he said.
Thompson cites a host of problems in Karen state and other ethnic regions, ranging from rehabilitating communities shattered by conflict to mounting land grabs that have turned the homes and fields of farmers into plantations, factories and dam sites.
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