by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 9, 2013 | Burma
Shortly before July, Time Magazine announced its intention to publish a cover story naming Wirathu, a militant nationalist Burmese monk, “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Until July, Wirathu was relatively obscure outside Burma, and although most were aware...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Aug 8, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
*This post is the first of two that look at nonviolent, local responses to mass atrocities. This post looks at the causes of mass atrocities and the reasons for nonviolent, local responses.”Local communities, especially when geographically isolated, often need...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 1, 2013 | General News
By Dr. Faustin Z. Ntoubandi(Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)Introduction The obligation to prevent and to punish as formulated in Genocide Convention Article1 (See Note III) calls for specific actions from State Parties. The nature of suchactions can be...
by Nora Rowley | Jul 29, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
The Development of Burma’s Authoritarian Rule and Depopulation of Targeted Ethnic Minorities including Rohingya Muslims of Arakan State Written by Nora E. Rowley M.D. M.P.H. August 22, 2012 Crimes and Human Rights Violations by Burma’s Ruling and...
by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | Jul 27, 2013 | General News
At the Sentinel Project, we are big advocates of making the data we are creating openly available for everybody that wants access to it. Making our data available allows people of the public to learn from our data, create data visualization, gain new insights or...
by Timothy Quinn | Jul 23, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Hatebase is both a hate speech lexicon and an aggregation of real-time incident data which we call “sightings” (i.e. actual incidents of hate speech for which we can establish both time and place). Although we value our robust vocabulary of multilingual,...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Jul 22, 2013 | General News
This post originally appeared on Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog. Here’s the link. My thesis topic, nonviolent responses to mass atrocities and genocide, is not the most straight forward. Few scholars have written about it in depth, and, if I do...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Jul 9, 2013 | Burma, General News, Team Announcements
*A version of this post originally appeared on Sentinel Project Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog, The Widening Lens. The Rohingya in Rakhine state, a Muslim ethnic group in a predominantly Buddhist country, are one of the most persecuted minority...
by Sean Langberg | Jul 8, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Approximately 160 million people died in wars during the 20th century. Nearly a million more have died in the 21st century, including during current conflicts in Iraq, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Burma, Syria, and more. Claims that we...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 4, 2013 | General News, Kyrgyzstan, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
By Scott Dempsey, Mercyhurst University Click here to read the full assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan. The Sentinel Project has completed an assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan, finding it to be unlikely within the next five years. Our team...
