Title: MAR: Minorities at Risk

Source/Sponsoring Agency: University of Maryland. Center for International Development and Conflict Management

URL: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/

Date Checked: 3/5/2008      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 3/5/2008

Topics: Human Rights Law; International Law; Politics

Other keywords: Indigenous Peoples

Contents: Minorities at Risk (MAR), a project initiated in 1986, is based at University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management. MAR monitors more than 280 politically significant ethnic groups, "identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them." Information on the site currently covers the years 1945-2003. MAR makes available to the site an extensive dataset that users may access with a free registration. Once registered, users may manipulate the data, including accessing specific variables and creating subsets. A separate discrimination dataset is posted to the site and files are organized by minority group and country. As well, researchers will find, posted in PDF, a user’s manual for the MAR datasets. The Hot Spots section of the site allows researchers to identify "the most threatened and mobilized" groups. Maps are provided indicating groups persecuted by discrimination or state-sponsored repression, as well as mobilized groups that have staged a large protest directed at the state, or that were involved in guerrilla warfare or a civil war. For each group indicated, the site offers a risk assessment and an analysis, as well as a group chronology.

Author of Annotation: M. Morrison