Levelling ecomonies of scale and the "long tail" of the web for global charitable projects.

The NY Times's N. Kristof writes: "For those readers who ask me what they can do to help fight poverty, one option is to sit down at your computer and become a microfinancier.

Description: The Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project is a university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000.

Description: Scroill down this page to find a dataset that is designed to operationalize Samuel Huntington's concept of civilizations and to provide variables for religious identity, both for use with the Minorities at Risk (MAR) dataset. The codebook contains a description of the variables. The dataset is in SPSS format and the codebook is in MS Word.

Description: International, interdisciplinary conference is set to examine how religious and gender identities arise and develop in relation to one another in the context of globalization. Thirteen internationally-recognized scholars, authors, artists and film-makers have been invited to address the conference's theme by reflecting on the bodily practices of migrants in both refugee situations and immigrant populations in Europe and the U.S.A.