FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Priorities for Research on Conflict in Multiethnic Countries--Charles Tilly -- Reports of Working Groups -- Priorities for Research on Collective Violence--Charles Tilly, Valery A. Tishkov, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Mark R. Beissinger, Viktor V. Bocharov, Lev D. Gudkov, Larissa L. Khoperskaya -- Priorities for Research on Culture, Identity, and Conflict--Anatoly M. Khazanov, Aleksey Miller, Leokadia Drobizheva, Matthew Evangelista, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Aleksandr Kamensky, Valikhan Merzikhanov, Eduard D. Ponarin -- Priorities for Research on the Comparative Study of Identity Conflicts--Paul C. Stern, Vitaly Naumkin, Andrew Bennett, Edward W. Walker, Ludmila Gotagova, Emil Pain, Aleksandr Shubin -- Supporting Analyses Presented at the Interacademy Workshop on December 7, 2001 -- The State of the Art in Understanding Violence--Valery A. Tishkov -- Priority Themes for Research on Collective Violence--Mark R. Beissinger and Stathis N. Kalyvas -- Violence in Ethnonational Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Space--Lev D. Gudkov -- The Anthropology of Collective Violence--Viktor V. Bocharov -- State, Ethnocultural Identities, and Intergroup Relations--Anatoly M. Khazanov -- The Effects of Globalization on Russia: An Analysis of New Russian Nationalism--Eduard D. Ponarin -- Culture, Identity, and Conflict: Suggested Areas for Further Research--Yoshiko M. Herrera -- Culture, Identity, and Conflict: The Influence of Gender--Matthew Evangelista -- A Typology of Identity Conflicts for Comparative Research Andrew Bennett, Paul C. Stern, and Edward W. Walker -- Comments on the Design and Direction of the Comparative Study of Identity Conflicts Project--Edward W. Walker -- General Analyses Presented at the Interacademy Workshop on December 7, 2001 -- Multiethnic States and Conflicts After the USSR--Valery A. Tishkov.

Problems of Maintaining Ethnopolitical Stability and the Prevention of Conflicts in the Volga Federal District--Venaly V. Amelin -- The Dynamics of the Ethnopolitical Situation and Conflicts in the North Caucasus--Larissa L. Khoperskaya -- Organizational Aspects -- Working Group Members and Charges to the Three Working Groups -- Agenda for Russian Policy Officials -- Plenary Session Agenda and Participants -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix A--Selected Documents from the Interacademy Symposium in Moscow, December 18-20, 2000 -- Appendix A-1--Postconflict Chechnya: Analysis of the Situation and Reconstruction Problems (Political Aspects)--Dzhabrail Gakaev -- Appendix A-2--Ethnic and National Conflicts in the Age of Globalization--Anatoly M. Khazanov -- Appendix A-3--Transition and Conflict in Multiethnic Postsocialist Societies: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina--Tone Bringa -- Appendix A-4--States in Transition and the Challenge of Ethnic Conflict: Russian and International Perspectives -- Appendix B--Documents Concerning the Southern Federal District (North Caucasus) -- Appendix B-1--Chechnya from Conflict to Stability: Problems of Postconflict Reconstruction -- Appendix B-2--Officials and Specialists from the North Caucasus Consulted in Rostov-on-Don October 10-11, 2000 -- Appendix C--Documents Concerning the Volga Federal District -- Appendix C-1--Program for Strengthening Ethnoreligious Accord in the Volga Federal District -- Appendix C-2--Officials and Specialists Concerned with the Volga Federal District Consulted in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod October 28-November 3, 2001 -- Appendix D--Other Documents -- Appendix D-1--The Dynamic of Factors of Ethnopolitical Conflicts in Post-Soviet States--Valery A. Tishkov -- Appendix D-2--Other Russian Officials and Specialists Consulted During the Project Moscow, Russia April 2000.

Appendix D-3--Chronology of Events Throughout the Project.