by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 11, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
If you’ve been following the Sentinel Project’s social media updates recently, you’ll know that we just concluded our first-ever field work by sending a small team to Kenya, which was the second situation of concern (SOC) that we started monitoring....
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jan 2, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project is excited to have former US ambassador Jack Chow, an advocate for humanitarian drones, join us as an advisor. He will be assisting our team as we develop new ideas about these devices and build prototypes in the near future. Many of our...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jul 30, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
I am pleased to announce that the Sentinel Project is the newest member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP). Following last week’s approval by the Coalition’s steering committee, we are now one of 45 members of an international...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jul 5, 2012 | Conferences, General News, Team Announcements
Everyone knows that ideas get better when you share them, so last week Collin Sullivan and I took the opportunity to attend the 3rd Global Conference on Genocide at San Francisco State University. The four-day event, organized by the International Network of Genocide...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jun 13, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Last week I had the honour of representing the Sentinel Project at an international wokshop in Panama which addressed the topic of creating what is being called a “Regional Mechanism for Peace and Conflict Resolution” in Latin America. This multi-year...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 22, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
An important part of our work here at the Sentinel Project is to not only develop ideas for predicting and preventing genocide but also to share them as widely as possible. That’s why I was so pleased to be invited by the Arias Foundation to speak in Panama at...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 10, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
In an uncommon and very welcome move, Toronto City Council recently declared May 10 to be Will to Intervene Day. This move is the result of a joint initiative by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and the Canadian Centre for the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 4, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Anyone who knows the Sentinel Project knows that we’re big fans of technology. Whether it’s data visualization or flying robots, when we talk about genocide prevention, we’re also talking about new tools we can develop. However, technology has already been having an...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Apr 2, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Last week, I had the honour of speaking on a panel at the Toronto screening of Education Under Fire, a film about the exclusion of Bahá’ís from Iranian universities and colleges and the crackdown on the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). The evening was a...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 21, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
[written by Rebeka Seyfried] We are coming upon the final ten weeks of our academic year at Mercyhurst University and while the weather is getting better, our team is working harder on the term’s final output for the Sentinel Project. The past few months have been...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 7, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[Please note that these are my own personal thoughts and not official Sentinel Project policy.] Lately I’ve been reflecting on our work here at the Sentinel Project and exactly what it means. We obviously talk a lot about prevention and the key role played by early...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Dec 1, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
A month ago, Abhishek and I had the great experience of representing the Sentinel Project at Telecom World 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. This annual conference and trade show is organized by the International Telecommunications Union, the United Nations specialized...
