“…Case studies of individual terrorist movements and campaigns frequently depict discrimination against minority groups to be an important motivating factor for terrorist activity (see, for example, Bradley, 2006; Buendia, 2005; Van de Voorde, 2005; Whittaker, 2001; Ergil, 2000; Laqueur, 1999; O’Hearn, 1987). These findings are compatible with the results of cross-national empirical studies on the precipitants of civil war onset, rebellions, and other episodes of mass political violence that yield, albeit inconsistent, evidence that minority discrimination and the targeting of minority populations for repression by states fuel small-scale intra-state armed conflict (Regan and Norton, 2005; Bonneuil and Auriat, 2000; Moore, 1998; Lichbach, 1987).…”