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,...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 7, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern
In recent weeks, Iranian Baha’is have continued to be targeted in several ways: January 18 One arrest in Sari HRANA reports that upon being summoned to the local Ministry of Information office, Sari resident Fayzullah Rowshan was arrested and kept out of contact...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 3, 2011 | Team Announcements
A member of the Sentinel Project Research Team, Collin Sullivan, is currently attending the 2011 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California, where this year’s theme is “Making Data Work.” Strata is a great opportunity for Collin since he has a...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 22, 2011 | Team Announcements
During our research on different risk factors, we came across some references by different scholars to the way that a population’s ethnic composition can influence the likelihood of ethnic conflict and genocide. For example, Jane Springer explains that if one...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 21, 2011 | General News
UN Dispatch has reported a statement from the United Nations which warns of the possibility of genocide in Ivory Coast, where opposing sides continue to face off over a disputed presidential election in late 2010. Francis Deng, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 21, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern
Three recent events highlight the ongoing actions against Baha’is in Iran: January 14 Raid on “Achilan Doors”: Four Arrests HRANA (English translation available here) reports that security agents raided Achilan Doors, a manufacturing company based in...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 11, 2011 | Team Announcements
As we announced in a recent blog post, the Research Team has been making progress on a list of risk factors that increase the likelihood of genocide taking place in a given country. While this is definitely a milestone in our development, it is really just one part of...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 7, 2011 | General News
CNN recently published an op-ed piece by Chris Taylor and Anthony Zinni, “Military needs response plan to genocide.” In it, Taylor and Zinni outline the need for a standard military doctrine to guide responses to genocide and mass atrocities. Such events...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 4, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern
New reports from two Iranian human rights organizations have become available through the Sen’s Daily blog and shed light on the recent series of arson attacks against Baha’i businesses in the city of Rafsanjan, Iran. The Committee of Human Rights...
