For all their savagery, the conflicts there have been essentially local, the result of unresolved ethnic, religious and power disputes.

It would also create an unrealistic and potentially dangerous model for resolving ethnic disputes elsewhere.

Fiji's ethnic disputes, and their sources in colonialism, are all too familiar.

The fight highlighted the difficulties American troops face as they try to pick their way through ethnic disputes.

That, the Americans hope, will establish the framework to defuse any ethnic disputes peacefully.

The ethnic dispute on the Iraqi constitution revolves around a committee that will be charged to write the document.

Small ethnic disputes were, however, present on occasion.

Like ethnic disputes elsewhere in the world, the question of whose land this originally was depends on how far back in history one goes.

The two tiny countries also share one of the world's worst ethnic disputes.

Then you have the volativity of ethnic and religious disputes.