The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is an online encyclopedia with the objective of documenting

massacre A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ...

s which have occurred in the 20th century. The project was founded by

Jacques Sémelin Jacques Sémelin is a French historian and political scientist. He is a professor at Sciences Po, Sciences Po Paris and senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS (Center for International Studies). His main fields ...

. The Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales,

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

(Paris), and the

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

and The

Hamburg Institute for Social Research The Hamburg Institute for Social Research (; abbreviated HIS) is an independent private foundation whose scholarship is focused on both contemporary history and the social sciences. Founded in 1984 by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, it currently employs ...

are working on the project. Claire Andrieu (Sciences Po Paris) is currently supervising the project.

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, 2008 French online encyclopedias Works about massacres Publishing companies established in 2007 Specialized encyclopedias