| Abstract: | Internal ethnic conflicts appear to be protracted and intractable across the globe in the 1990s. A rare success tory is the struggle resolved between the land‐locked West African Republic of Mali and its Tuareg nomadic inhabitants. They rebelled in 1962–64 and 1990–94. The Malian government, which shares borders with seven other states, eventually defused the insurgency mainly by incorporating the Tuareg into its security forces. The author had a prominent role in this and examines the lessons that deserve to be far better known for the world at large. |
