Javier Solana, the EU's foreign-policy chief, triumphantly announced that from 2002 onwards the ethnic-Albanians' contingent in the police force would be in line with their share of the total population.
In these letters, he advocated an immediate re-organization of the government according to Zbor ideology, the abolishment of Croatian autonomy, the division of the Royal Yugoslav Army into contingents of ethnic Serbs and some Croat and Slovene volunteers, who would be armed, and contingents of most Croats and Slovenes in the armed forces, who would serve as labour units and would be unarmed.
Understandings of ethnic identity that foreground its contingent, contested and fluid nature may sit uneasily with cross-national comparative research.
Worst case: A power struggle develops within the army, and a nuclear-armed Pakistan collapses into sectarian and ethnic strife while the large jihadist contingent operates unfettered.
Cultural differences might well extend beyond non-monetary health state valuations, given that significant differences in valuations of risk reduction by ethnic background have been demonstrated in a contingent valuation study [ 41].
The final phase of the Genesis Project worked to debunk lingering ethnic stereotypes by promoting arts and other creative activities contingent on child participation.
Another rebel leader said the rebels demanded the release of imprisoned soldiers and paramilitary gendarmes, the reintegration into the armed forces of soldiers in exile, and compensation for them and the disbanding of a gendarme contingent being established "because it is based on ethnic recruiting".
The majority of Minnesotans are Protestants, including a significant Lutheran contingent, owing to the state's largely Northern European ethnic makeup, but Roman Catholics (of largely German, Irish, and Slavic descent) make up the largest single Christian denomination.
The huge security contingent used to suppress the turmoil that swept Tibet and ethnic Tibetan areas of neighbouring provinces in March 2008 will remain largely in place.
Forty-one British troops arrived here tonight as part of an advance NATO team that will help decide when and if Macedonia is safe and stable enough for a full contingent of 3,500 NATO troops to come in and disarm ethnic Albanian guerrillas.
