by Sentinel Project | Aug 20, 2012 | Burma, General News, Indonesia, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project is expanding the scope of its monitoring work to include situations of concern (SOCs) in four new countries. These countries were selected by balancing their apparent risk levels with our own resources and ability to have a positive impact. The...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 18, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Everyone knows that volunteering is important for a healthy society because when people give their time it means that organizations with limited resources can pursue worthy causes when they might have been otherwise held back by their inability to hire staff. The...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 14, 2012 | General News, Iran, Situations of Concern
We have now compiled a summary of all the events in Iran which targeted the Bahá’í community during the month of April 2012. In an unusually positive development, Muslim parents openly defended their Bahá’í neighbours at a public meeting in Najafabad after two Bahá’í...
by Sentinel Project | May 28, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Editor’s note: We recently had the honour of the Sentinel Project’s risk factor list being the subject of a thesis by Clarinda Solberg, who compared it to the statistical model developed by Barbara Harff. Clarinda used the two models to explore the...
by Sentinel Project | May 20, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Here at the Sentinel Project we recently took a step back and are reorganizing our team in order to overcome some challenges and get closer to accomplishing our mission. A major part of this effort has been to document the framework and process that our Research Team...
by Sentinel Project | May 5, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
As a growing organization, we’re looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated volunteer to join the Sentinel Project and take on the role of Volunteer Coordinator. Your role will be to help us recruit talented, experienced, and passionate individuals into our...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 25, 2012 | General News
On Sunday, April 22, 2012, I was given the opportunity, with Abhishek, to attend the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide commemoration ceremony. Although much of the ceremony was conducted in Armenian, which I unfortunately do not understand, I was fortunate...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 14, 2012 | General News, Iran, Situations of Concern
[written by Andrew Miller] The act of genocide requires years of preparation since an attempt to wipe out a culture or a group through mass killings can’t be planned over night. Before purchasing the weapons and rounding up the victims, society needs to be persuaded...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 10, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
For those of you who don’t know me yet, my name is Emily Tamfo and for the last few months I have been interning for the Sentinel Project as part of the Media and the Public Interest program at the University of Western Ontario. My time with SP is now coming to a...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 10, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern
We have now compiled a summary of all the events in Iran which targeted the Bahá’í community during the month of March 2012. This period saw a continuation of many of the activities noted during February including the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Bahá’ís,...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 26, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention has been tracking the systematic harassment and persecution of Iran’s Bahá’í community for several years, with the fear that this religious group, Iran’s largest minority religion with around 300,000 members, may be the...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 18, 2012 | General News
The Sentinel Project welcomes Elizabeth Kellett to her new position as Research Coordinator. Elizabeth has already been an asset to the Research Team through her work on the forthcoming Burma situation of concern, so we are very excited about what the future will...
