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Update on the risk of election violence in Kenya

by John Green Otunga | Feb 28, 2022 | Early Warning, Kenya, Misinformation, Technology, Una Hakika

The Sentinel Project is building a network of like-minded stakeholders to collaborate on preventing and mitigating violence related to Kenya’s 2022 general election. Often seen as a beacon of stability in its region, political upheaval in Kenya can have ramifications...

New Public Report: Globally Scaling Digital Solutions for Managing Misinformation

by Sentinel Project | Sep 6, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Technology

How do we know that something we hear or read is accurate? What conventions or practices help us to establish whether a new piece of information is true or false? What is the harm in repeatedly receiving incorrect information? It seems as though it is becoming harder...

Findings and Lessons Learned from Our Pilot Misinformation Management Project in Sri Lanka

by Nishadi Gunatilake | Apr 24, 2022 | Early Warning, General News, Misinformation, Sri Lanka, Technology

The Sentinel Project ran a pilot misinformation management project in Sri Lanka from July 2021 to December 2021. This article examines the trends and patterns of misinformation observed in 2021 as a result of the project’s monitoring work, summarises some of the...

Women at the core of the Sentinel Project’s peacebuilding activities

by Raashi Saxena | Mar 31, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Women

Gender equity has always been a crucial aspect of the Sentinel Project’s work. This is demonstrated well by misinformation management projects, in which engaging both men and women is essential due to their complementarity in conflict information ecosystems. In...

The Challenge of Online Harms: Key outcomes at the UN Internet Governance Forum 2021

by Raashi Saxena | Jan 31, 2022 | Conferences, Early Warning, Technology

The Sentinel Project recently organised a workshop at the 16th annual UN Internet Governance Forum held in Katowice, Poland. Our session titled “The Challenges of Online Harms : Can AI moderate Hate Speech?” brought together human rights experts with...
The Sentinel Project’s blog series on misinformation, hate speech, and violence

The Sentinel Project’s blog series on misinformation, hate speech, and violence

by The Sentinel Project | Sep 30, 2021 | General News, Misinformation

This infographic outlines the general misinformation management process that we use across our projects.   Blog #1: How are misinformation, hate speech, and violence linked and what are their consequences? The Sentinel Project has spent a lot of time thinking about...
Satellite imagery analysis shows extent of detention centre expansion and security

Satellite imagery analysis shows extent of detention centre expansion and security

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...

Developing a community vulnerability scorecard

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...
Yemen’s intractable, invisible civil war

Yemen’s intractable, invisible civil war

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...
Closing Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps: Thoughts from the ground

Closing Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps: Thoughts from the ground

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...
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