The Minorities at Risk project at the University of Maryland provides access to their MAR Data and qualitative risk assessments from the web site. The project is based at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM).
MAR tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present — identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. MAR focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have “political significance” in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions. Political significance is determined by the following two criteria:
* The group collectively suffers, or benefits from, systematic discriminatory treatment vis-a-vis other groups in a society
* The group is the basis for political mobilization and collective action in defense or promotion of its self-defined interests