by Sentinel Project | Mar 18, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project’s research team is constantly seeking to improve the flow of information surrounding our situations of concern (SOC). After all, information is the key to predicting genocide and the more knowledge we can gather about events happening in a...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 12, 2012 | General News
Last Thursday night, moviegoers crowded into the TIFF Bell Lightbox in downtown Toronto to watch the screening of director Pamela Yates’s heavily anticipated Granito: How to Nail a Dictator. Before the film even began, the long line just to get into the theatre was a...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 6, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
As the old saying goes, knowledge is power. Today, with the help of researcher Rachel Hatcher, the Sentinel Project team gained some expert knowledge on the history and context surrounding the Guatemalan genocide. Rachel is currently in Guatemala researching the ways...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 29, 2012 | General News
[Blog post by Rebecca Dixon] Our Mount Allison chapter will be bringing attention to the Situation of Concern in Iran this week as it co-hosts a film screening of the documentary Letters from Iran. We are very excited to have Dr. Hans von Sponeck, a former United...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 22, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[written by Emily Tamfo] It’s not surprising that in recent years, film seems to be one of the most effective means of conveying provocative topics such as genocide (Hotel Rwanda is but one example). Not only does film have the unique ability to captivate an audience...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 20, 2012 | General News
In the past year, the Sentinel Project has seen many great changes within the organization. One of our proudest accomplishments is SP’s University Chapters. Not only have we exceeded the number of chapters we expected to have at this time, we could not be happier...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 13, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[written by Tuan Nguyen and Erika Suzuki] We are excited and proud to announce that our campus chapter at UC Berkeley has been selected to attend the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University. Tuan and Erika, the chapter’s co-directors, will travel to George...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 26, 2012 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
[written by Rebeka Seyfried] This past fall, Mercyhurst College became the first international university chapter to work with the Sentinel Project. Our chapter consists of six team members who will be working together on assessing the risk of genocide against Iranian...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 20, 2012 | Donations, General News
After a few weeks of social networking and interpersonal campaigning, the final numbers are in for my birthday wish fundraiser. While the original goal of $1,000 was perhaps overly-ambitious, we did manage to raise a cool $500! That money will go toward further...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 15, 2011 | General News
These last weeks have found our team putting together the front and backend components of the Gin prototype. Our efforts have centred on establishing a single repository on Github, currently administered by Michelle, where Vincent and Leemor’s frontend code has...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 2, 2011 | General News
As we announced in a recent blog post, Mercyhurst College became our first international student chapter. Their chapter is unique since it will be entirely made up of graduate students from the Intelligence Studies program who will be working as interns for the...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 29, 2011 | General News
Blog Post by Dennis Sithoo Earlier today I was watching a travel show on television where the hosts were visiting Cambodia. They visited an old school that was converted into a detention and torture centre for the Khmer Rouge. The stained floors, rusted relics and...
