A work in progress...

April 28, 2008 8:19 AM

The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violenceis a scholarly database of case studies focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century, both transnational and national. It also includes theoretical papers.

Unfortunately the site doesn't provide the full list of papers (clicking on the case studies links can be frustrating as many papers are not yet available and marked as "work in progress"), but the search function can be used to find available topics.

posted by elgilito (6 comments total)

No US entry? I guess there is a lot to cover.
posted by auralcoral at 8:23 AM on April 28, 2008

Are there any case studies at all? I looked in Croatia, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, East Timor, and a few others. There was nothing. Is this more of a potential source of information or an actual one?
posted by A-Train at 9:06 AM on April 28, 2008

I clicked on ten countries. Not a one had any info.
posted by jsavimbi at 9:23 AM on April 28, 2008

Cambodia was the only one I found with a case study. I wish this had been posted when it was ready to debut. Now I have to not forget to go back in six months.
posted by trinarian at 10:35 AM on April 28, 2008

Is this more of a potential source of information or an actual one?

looks like an amazing project but it does look to be mostly just potential at the moment - the first dozen or so active links in the case studies section almost all lead to the same message of it being a "work in progress" - it would be great if they had a prospective timeline of when they think various parts of this project might be completed - as it is, there's no way to know when to return

in the meantime, if you feel like having your optimism taken out behind the chemical sheds & shot, there's always the Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century - i don't know when it was last updated but it is pretty extensive

posted by jammy at 10:38 AM on April 28, 2008

sorry, elgilito, i just realized you mentioned that the case studies section is incomplete... my bad.

i will be checking out the theoretical papers section, which seems more fleshed out - thanks for the link

posted by jammy at 10:55 AM on April 28, 2008