11.   THE Union of Welsh Independents, which meets at Wrexham today, will debate a motion that has the long-term aim of ending ethnic conflict in the world.

12.   And the nature of the conflicts they have addressed is dramatically different from the earlier generation, plunging peacekeepers into the middle of ethnic conflict and civil war.

13.   As such the Bosnian war and the Dayton peace agreement have reignited a debate on whether partition is an effective solution to ethnic conflict.

14.   As the Bosnian war festers, Western nations have been trying to deal better with the specter of ethnic conflict elsewhere.

15.   Both Yugoslavia and its Balkan neighbors can more quickly and confidently recover from years of ethnic conflict if Milosevic is held accountable for crimes against humanity.

16.   Bridging Boundaries in Israel With ethnic conflict rampant in the world, reconciliation is suddenly big news in Israel.

17.   But Estonia is negotiating an accord with Russia, and in much of the rest of Europe the headlong rush toward ethnic conflict appears to be slowing.

18.   But even so, they added, it stops short of asserting that NATO should go to war over an ethnic conflict.

19.   But the panelists said deep-rooted ethnic conflicts cannot be painted over with a fresh coat of new institutions and international aid.

20.   But the probing is far broader, as the organization faces a world in which ethnic conflicts and anarchy wreak more death and destruction than wars between states.