Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence

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The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is an online encyclopedia with the objective of documenting massacres which have occurred in the 20th century. [1] [2]

The project was founded by Jacques Sémelin. [3] The Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po (Paris), and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and The Hamburg Institute for Social Research are working on the project. [4] Claire Andrieu (Sciences Po Paris) is currently supervising the project.

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References

  1. OEMV (21 January 2021). "OEMV". Sciences Po.
  2. Bloxham, Donald (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN   978-0-19-923211-6.
  3. Melson, Robert (Winter 2009). "Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide" (PDF). Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 23 (3): 508–510. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcp056.
  4. Press Release. "Massviolence.org". The Hamburg Institute for Social Research.