by Sentinel Project | Jun 17, 2011 | General News
Over the past few months I’ve had the good fortune to represent The Sentinel Project at a few conferences in the San Francisco Bay area, where I’m based. The conferences were a diverse array of learning and networking opportunities, as each focused on a different...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 16, 2011 | Team Announcements
We’re looking for a few interns to work with us through the summer (or beyond) on a project based in the San Francisco Bay area. The project is primarily an administrative and operational one, so interested persons with a background in nonprofit management and...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 14, 2011 | General News
One of the newest members of our team, Tom Balemesa, was fortunate enough to attend the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) second annual conference on Preventing Violent Conflict. This is his report. The field of peacebuilding has evolved over time and the USIP...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 9, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Welcome back everyone, I just wanted to write a blog post to inform you all on some of the things that have been going on with our team! If you have not read my previous post, my name is Rahma Adnan, and I am a recent addition to the research team at the Sentinel...
by Sentinel Project | May 12, 2011 | General News
The CUTC (http://cutc.ca/) conference is a major event that draws students interested in science, technology and entrepreneurship across Canada each year. This year we were invited to set up a table at the Tech Expo part of the event. We don’t usually do a lot...
by Sentinel Project | May 10, 2011 | Kenya, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project has initiated a new situation of concern (SOC) regarding the high risk of genocide in Kenya. Our research team recently applied the first phase of the early warning process by conducting a comprehensive risk assessment that took into account the...
by Sentinel Project | May 9, 2011 | Team Announcements
UPDATED August 5th 2013 Please read a more updated description of the current state of Threatwiki http://thesentinelproject.org/introducing-threatwiki-3-0-warsaw-a-big-update-for-sentinel-projects-genocide-risk-tracking-platform/ — For the past few months, the...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 15, 2011 | Team Announcements
Sentinel Project team members Collin Sullivan, Christopher Tuckwood and Taneem Talukdar had the opportunity to meet with Congressman Tim Walz, the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, on Friday. In 1993, Congressman Walz was a teacher...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 11, 2011 | Team Announcements
Our blog has been quiet lately, but things have been busier than they’ve ever been at the Sentinel Project over the last month. We’ve been making great progress and a lot of it will be coming together and released publicly in a few weeks. We will be...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 27, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern
Recent weeks have seen a large number of incidents targeting Iranian Baha’is: February 12 Two female Baha’i leaders transferred to harsher prison conditions The Baha’i World News Service carried a press release from the Baha’i International Community...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 12, 2011 | General News
As we reported in an earlier blog post, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in the United States has initiated a project to study mass atrocity response operations (MARO). These efforts seek to articulate a doctrine by which military forces all around the world...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 9, 2011 | General News
In a recent TED Talk called “Evil – What Makes People Go Wrong?”, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discussed the situational pressures that can lead people to commit what he terms “evil” acts against others, including torture, cruelty,...
