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By David J. Whittaker

Clash and Reconciliation within the modern global offers a concise, unique and multi-faceted creation to the research of contemporary clash events. utilizing 8 case- experiences, from 4 continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern eire, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it contains dialogue on: * threatened neighborhood peace and defense * cycles of inner discord, inhabitants displacement and violence * controversy over factors, development and backbone * the price of exterior mediation, enforcement or intervention equivalent to sanctions or "punishments" * potential, timing and permanence of reconciliation.

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The growth of industrialisation and the tapping of vast mineral resources after 1900 made South Africa dependent upon large numbers of black male workers migrating to white cities from ‘reserves’ where their families were left to sparse subsistence farming. Segregation of white and black was seen as defending and preserving white culture, residence and the social order, as well as operating a ‘colour bar’ to protect ‘lower-class’ whites from competition in the job market. 22 Apartheid in South Africa Nelson Mandela has spoken of apartheid as ‘a new term but an old idea…a monolithic system that was diabolical in its detail, inescapable in its reach and overwhelming in its power’.

Each is long-standing. All have seen external states and individual would-be mediators working hard to devise solutions and schemes for reconciling adversaries. In the case of Cyprus, the internal conflict appears tranquillised while two neighbours to the conflict situation, Greece and Turkey, apply mounting and dangerous pressures. There is a crisis in the making here, one with international ramifications. CONTEMPORARY CYPRUS For nearly two generations the beautiful island of Cyprus, the ‘pearl of the eastern Mediterranean’, has been a place of searing intolerance, conflict and violence.

Freedom for the deprived had required an advancing thrust; freedom for all South Africans would need a common revolution. There would be no time for recrimination: enemies must become partners. A new united government was elected, with the ANC getting 60 per cent of total votes and the National Party 20 per cent, and it took office in Pretoria in April 1994. de Klerk, the former President, as a Vice-President. In a Cabinet of twenty-seven there were ten white members, six of them from the National Party.

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