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Because of the strength of the traditional emirate subculture, there is a remarkably effective capacity for local government linked to federal structures in a complex linkage system with both vertical and horizontal components. There is much political Harrison, Selig, 1989: “Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan: The Baluchi, Pushtun, and Sindhis,” in: Montville (1989): 301–326. 12 Nolutshungu, Sam, 1990: “Fragments of a Democracy: Reflections on Class and Politics in Nigeria,” in: Third World Quarterly, (January): 86–115; and Paden, John, 1989: “National System Development and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria,” in: Montville (1989): 411–432.
Women also serve in the civilian police forces of a number of countries. In spite of increasing levels of physical training and prowess, women are still far more the victims than the victimizers when it comes to violence. 32 Since skill, not size and strength, are now the prime factors in law enforcement, and very probably in military action also, we might look ahead with Brownmiller to the time when women will make up 50% of all armies, national guards, state and local police, and the judiciary.
Whether it is the nationalist movements in the Celtic fringe of Great Britain— Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland,6 or the Celtic fringe in France and Spain— Breton and Basque—or the Sardinians of Italy, the Sami (Lapps) in Norway, the native peoples in the Americas, the French in Canada, or the host of dissatisfied ethnic groups in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the story is always the same: each group is being denied some of the economic, social, and cultural opportunities available to other populations in the state in question.
