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This global project has been initiated by Professor Jacques Semelin, Research director at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) with the support of Sciences-Po Paris and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS France).

Along with the associate editors in charge of the development of the website’s geographical and thematic content, an International Academic Advisory Board of the pre-eminent scholars in the field, will insure the quality and relevance of the posted data and will work vigilantly against any attempt to manipulate this website or exploit it for communitarian, political or ideological purposes.

Click here to consult the Website list of Contributors.

To contact us, please write to: contact (at) massviolence (dot) org

Editor in chief : Jacques Semelin, Sciences Po, Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Project Manager : Nathalie Tenenbaum, Sciences Po, Center for International Studies and Research (CERI).

Webmaster : Jean-Pierre Masse

Mathieu Bouquet and Charles Tenenbaum created the original version of the OEMV website.

Assistant Editor : Martine Alonso Marquis

EDITORIAL BOARD

Claire Andrieu, Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France.

Gilles Bataillon, EHESS, Paris, France.

Annette Becker, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France.

Hamit Bozarslan,EHESS, Paris, France.

Danielle De Lame, Musée Royal d’Afrique Central, Tervuren, Belgium.

Jean Marc Dreyfus, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Gerd Hankel, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg, Germany.

Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po-Ceri, Paris, France.

Raymond Kevorkian, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris VIII, France.

Stéphane Simonnet, Mémorial de Caen, France.

Françoise Sironi, Université de Paris VIII, France.

Yves Tomic, Université de Paris X, France.

Nicolas Werth, IHTP/CNRS, Paris, France.

CERI staff members collaborating to the project:

Ewa Kulesza-Mietkowski, Executive Director

Martine Jouneau, Information Officer

Dorian Ryser, Information Officer

Editorial team :

Gregory Elliott, Translator

Leslie Piquemal, Translator

Leo Schwartz, Editing

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD

Elazar Barkan, SIPA, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Omer Bartov, Brown University, Providence, USA.

Philippe Burrin, IHEI, Geneva, Switzerland.

Antonio Cassese, University of Florence, Italy.

Frank Chalk, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.

Denis Charbit, Open University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Jean Philippe Béja, Sciences-Po, CERI, Paris, France.

Abram de Swaan,University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Steve Heder, University of London, United Kingdom.

Alexander Hinton, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights , Rutgers/The State University of New Jersey, USA.

Henry Huttenbach,CICR, City Ccollege of New York, USA.

Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po, CERI, Paris, France.

Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University, New Haven, USA.

René Lemarchand, University of Florida, USA.

Paul Levine, The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studie s ,University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Dirk Moses, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Norman Naimark, Stanford University, USA.

Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France.

Dieter Pohl, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany.

Samantha Power, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University, USA.

Valérie Rosoux, CECRI, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Gonzalo Sanchez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

William Schabbas, Irish Center for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Dominik J. Schaller, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany.

Martin Shaw, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Philip Spencer,Kingston University, London, United Kingdom.

Eric D. Weitz,University of Minnesota, USA.

Annette Wieviorka, CNRS, Paris, France.

Michael Wildt, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg, Germany.

Jürgen Zimmerer, Sheffield University, United Kingdom.

Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence® - ISSN 1961-9898 - Edited by Jacques Semelin