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    The Project - Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence

    http://www.massviolence.org/-The-Project-

    «Writing history… aims at calming the dead who still haunt the present, and at offering them scriptural tombs.»

    Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, New York and Chichester, Columbia University Press, 1988.

    The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is a regularly updated electronic database focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century. Currently, there is no tool available that documents and classifies our knowledge by continent, country and historical period. The OEMV’s first objective is to fill this gap by offering reliable historical description and interdisciplinary analysis of both well-documented and less well-known 20th century massacres. Resources provided include chronological indexes, case studies, analytical contributions on socio-political violence in a given country, a glossary of the terms most often used in the field of genocide studies as well as theoretical papers written by the most representative authors in the field.