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ENGLISH LANGUAGE PERSPECTIVES: VIBRANT AND ETHNOCENTRICresources, capital, and markets’. 66 With respect to stabilization, Dannatasserts that ‘intervention will rarely be an end in itself – as I have saidthe purpose of any military intervention is likely to be the restoration ofstability’. 67DefinitionFIGURE 23. ENGLISH LANGUAGE PARAMETERS: DEFINITIONThe English language foresight literature does pay some attention to thedefinition of conflict in the future. Unlike many of the other parameters,the discussion is confined to one extreme of the possible spectrum. Morespecifically, the English language foresight literature tends to focus onthe more traditional/military conceptions of conflict: war and militarizedinter-state disputes.66 Malik, ‘The Sources and Nature of Future Conflicts in the Asia-Pacific Region,’ 33-65.67 Richard Dannatt, ‘A Perspective on the Nature of Future Conflict,’ Government, The NationalArchives, May 15, 2009, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tna/+/http://www.mod.uk:80/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/People/Speeches/ChiefStaff/20090515APerspectiveOnTheNatureOfFutureConflict.htm.HCSS Report 69