About us

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

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

Project Manager and Communication: Nathalie Tenenbaum.

Webmasters: Mathieu Bouquet, Charles Tenenbaum.

Editing team:
French language: Corinne Deloy
English language: Martine Alonso Marquis (Sciences Po), Leslie Piquemal (Sciences Po),
Nick Jones (School of Social Sciences, Kingston University)

Steering Committee: Project Implementation and Development

Claire Andrieu, Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France.
Gilles Bataillon, EHESS, Paris, France.
Hamit Bozarslan, EHESS, Paris, France.
Danielle De Lame, Musée Royal d’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium.
Gerd Hankel, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg, Germany.
Edouard Husson, Paris IV Sorbonne, France.
Christian Ingrao, IHTP/CNRS, Paris, France.
Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po-Ceri, Paris, France.
Raymond Kevorkian, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris VIII, France.
Jean-Louis Margolin, Université d’Aix en Provence, France.
Laurent Quisefit, EHESS, Paris, France.
Stéphane Simonnet, Mémorial de Caen, France.
Françoise Sironi, Université de Paris VIII, France.
Nicolas Werth, IHTP/CNRS, Paris, France.

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, 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 College of New York, USA.
Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po, CERI, Paris, France.
Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland.
René Lemarchand, University of Florida, USA.
Paul Levine, The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 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.
William Schabas, Irish Center for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
Dominik Schaller, Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Université de Bern, Switzerland.
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.