The Minorities at Risk project is a university based project in the Center for International Development & Conflict Management that seeks to analyze the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries of the world. Currently, the MAR database contains information on over 284 groups that can be used to help understand why certain groups choose to use violence as a political strategy.

The current database contains data that was gathered manually over a lengthy period of time, as human coders read through thousands of news sources and reports to compile the required information. However, the LCCD is working to automate part of this information retreival and compilation process through the use of STORY. In development are mechanisms that will allow STORY to search electronic news sources, and either provide the human coder with a much smaller set consisting only of relevant documents, or automatically aggregate the information and perform some coding tasks.