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...
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...