The official Website of the European Centre for Minority Issues furnishes users with activities, publications, and research tools devoted to "interdisciplinary research on various dimensions of minority-majority relations from a European perspective." The publications section provides working papers, monographs, and reports, the majority of which are downloadable in .pdf format. The site's most useful research tool is clearly its Enriched Link Database which lists more than 200 links to related Internet resources in fourteen subject categories and provides substantial information as to the contents of each link, including its institutional affiliations and whether or not the site offers statistics, government documents, downloadable texts, and the like. The site's library catalog allows users to search approximately 1,300 books in 23 languages on inter-ethnic relations, minority issues, and ethnic conflict in Europe. Currently, these volumes must be obtained by users independently; however, the construction of an on-site library is underway. The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is a non-partisan, bi-national institution founded by the Governments of Denmark and the Federal Republic of Germany.
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