by Sentinel Project | Nov 24, 2011 | General News
Blog post written by Rebecca Anne Dixon Mount Allison’s Student Chapter of the Sentinel Project has had an active semester of fundraising and raising awareness about genocide in the Sackville community. Following a successful stint running the coat check at the campus...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 18, 2011 | General News
Only months after the development of our University Chapters program, we have gone international! Our first International Chapter is at Mercyhurst College, located in Erie, Pennsylvania. Under the direction of Diane Chido, Adjust Professor of Intelligence Studies at...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 6, 2011 | General News
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention is now in its fourth year and it’s time to step up our organizational development efforts. We’ve spent our first three years focusing on technology and research, which drive our Early Warning System and help identify...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 6, 2011 | General News
We are getting near the end of the term and are making progress on Gin! A prototype should be finished by the end of the term! Leemor has been getting in contact with Sisi ni Amani to get specifications of their messages. Vincent has been working on combining django...
by Sentinel Project | Oct 19, 2011 | General News
We are 4 weeks into our project, and we are well on our way to putting it together. Vincent and Leemor have been working on different aspects of the frontend. Vincent has been mocking up a rough prototype and also researching the best and most efficient ways to...
by Sentinel Project | Oct 12, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project’s second University Chapter (lead by Briana Miller, Rachel Gardner and Rebecca Dixon) is at Mount Allison University! Stay posted to learn more about their plans and events.
by Sentinel Project | Oct 10, 2011 | General News
UCOSP (Undergraduate Canadian Open Source Project) is a group of Canadian University students who are working on an open source project from different universities. They have joined the Sentinel project to start on a project called GIN (Ground Information Network)...
by Sentinel Project | Oct 2, 2011 | General News
Earlier this year, Henry from our Research Team introduced us to the concept of a birthday wish when he pledged to raise $1,000 for the Sentinel Project from his friends and family. Amazingly, Henry reached his goal and set an example for the rest of the Sentinel...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 29, 2011 | General News, Kyrgyzstan, Team Announcements
In June of 2010 the Kyrgyz Republic held a referendum which changed their form of government from a presidential system to a parliamentary democracy. In the lead-up to the referendum there was widespread ethnic violence. The majority of the violence was committed by...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 31, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Tracking the recent developments in Iran and the ordeals facing the Bahá’í community there has been a sobering task as these events reflect some disturbing trends worth mentioning. An important part of our situation monitoring and analysis is observing patterns and...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 7, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Over the past few weeks members of The Sentinel Project have been following the events in Sudan with grave concern. News and NGO reports out of Abyei have described what many have called ethnic cleansing, and what may amount to genocide. Khartoum’s security...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 2, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Approximately 2 months ago, the Sentinel Project launched the first prototype of Threatwiki to start actively tracking two situations of concern: Kenya and Iran. We’ve learned a lot from the initial monitoring process that we’ve build around the system,...