by The Sentinel Project | Aug 31, 2021 | Early Warning, General News, Technology
Building on the extensive work of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Xinjiang Data Project, the Sentinel Project is working to analyze satellite imagery of locations of alleged detention and re-education facilities within the Xinjiang region. These...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 30, 2021 | Early Warning, General News
In early 2021, three graduate students – Alessandra Mooney, Allie Phillips, and Maddie Warman – from Georgetown’s Conflict Resolution MA program worked with the Sentinel Project to produce a framework for identifying what subnational factors make specific...
by The Sentinel Project | Jun 30, 2021 | General News, Situations of Concern, Yemen
This photo of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen by Rod Waddington was available via Wikimedia Commons Although the Sentinel Project does not currently have an active presence in Yemen, the country’s brutal, ongoing conflict is a situation of concern that our team has been...
by The Sentinel Project | Jun 29, 2021 | General News, Kenya
This landscape photo of Kakuma Refugee Camp by Matija Kovac was available via Wikimedia Commons. In March 2021, the Kenyan government issued a 14-day ultimatum to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop a plan to close the Kakuma and...
by The Sentinel Project | May 31, 2021 | General News
Our newest preliminary report outlines the results of recent efforts to better understand the gender-related dynamics in three of the countries where we work: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Uganda. In February and March 2021, we conducted...
by The Sentinel Project | May 5, 2021 | General News
Guest blog post by Karen Webb The Sentinel Project has long identified the serious persecution of the Bahá’í religious minority in Iran as a case of potential genocide. In fact, this one was of the very first situations of concern that our team declared after founding...
by The Sentinel Project | Apr 26, 2021 | Early Warning
This interview addresses the current crisis in Ethiopia, particularly in the Tigray region. Since November 2020, intense fighting between the central government under Abiy Ahmed and members of the former regime, along with their many allies, has caused “thousands of...
by The Sentinel Project | Apr 16, 2021 | Early Warning, Misinformation, Somalia, Technology
With contributions from Ahmed Gelle of the Manaal Relief Foundation The Sentinel Project recently launched a misinformation management pilot project together with an organization in Somalia called the Manaal Relief Foundation (MRF). The pilot project is taking place...
by The Sentinel Project | Mar 29, 2021 | Donations, General News, Kenya, Una Hakika
Kenya is set to hold a general election on 9 August 2022, which will see changes for all elected positions within the government, including members of parliament, senators, and the presidency. President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto currently...
by The Sentinel Project | Mar 25, 2021 | Conferences, Early Warning, General News
Mass atrocities such as genocide are not spontaneous events but rather planned, intentional actions, which means that they are also predictable and preventable. This basic premise is a foundational principle of the Sentinel Project’s mission as we seek to assist...
by The Sentinel Project | Feb 26, 2021 | General News, Situations of Concern
As we noted in our August 2020 statement, under the pretext of anti-terrorism operations, Chinese central government authorities continue to severely persecute the Uyghur community in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. That previous post highlighted the fact that,...
