In February 1995, the three universities comprising the MacArthur Consortium on International Peace and Cooperation (Stanford University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison) held a workshop on Ethnopolitics and Conflict Resolution at Stanford University. The first session of the workshop explored perspectives on ethnicity and ethnopolitics. The second session examined mechanisms for conflict resolution. The third session focused on knowledge and the policy process. In addition, Alison DesForges, an historian and human rights activist, gave a keynote address in which, in broad historical context, she described and explained the genocide in Rwanda over the past year, and international inaction in the face of that genocide. (In addition, participants in the workshop met in small groups to discuss the panels and additional readings on conflict in Rwanda and in the Caucasus; the findings of these groups will not be reported here.) What follows is a brief summary of major arguments and of the tenor of discussion.