This book attempts to explain why disadvantaged groups mobilize, and evaluates strategies that have successfully reduced ethic conflict in the past, including autonomy, pluralism, and power sharing. Foreword, Preface, Identifying Communal Groups, The Status of Minorities at Risk: Inequalities and Discrimination, ''Give Us the Means to the Future'': The Mobilization of Grievance, When Minorities Rebel: Explaining Ethnopolitical Protest and Rebellion, Minorities in the Western Democracies and Japan, States at Risk: Ethnopolitics in the Multinational States of Eastern Europe, Minorities and Rebellion and Repression in North Africa and the Middle East, Communal Conflict and Contention for Power in Africa South of the Sahara, Setting Ethnopolitical Conflicts, Summary and Applications, Appendix: Basic Data on Minorities at Risk, Notes, Index, Maps, Minority Proportions by Region, 1980s Ethopolitical Conflict by Region.