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...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 2, 2013 | Conferences
By: Alex Dyzenhaus The trials of war most affect a society’s vulnerable and marginalized. Therefore, in the context of a conflict, unprotected minorities can be at risk even if there is little to no explicit grievance against or hatred towards them. Through an...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jun 19, 2013 | General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
A recurrence of the inter-ethnic violence of the early 1990s hinges on the possibility of conventional war in Nagorno-Karabakh The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 sparked war and ethnic cleansing in the Central Caucus region, as former states of the multinational...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 14, 2013 | General News
By Dr. Faustin Z. Ntoubandi(Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)IntroductionIn order to liberate mankind from the odious scourge of genocide, States are under an obligation to prevent and punish acts constitutive of the crime of genocide. Article I of the...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 8, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
This report summarizes the findings of a Sentinel Project field team which visited the Tana Delta region of Kenya in early 2013. The team conducted a survey related to a series of ethnic massacres which occurred between August 2012 and January 2013. Their report...
by Brad Nazar | Jun 6, 2013 | General News
Note: This post is about analysing hate speech. The images below contain hateful terms. The Sentinel Project’s release of Hatebase (www.hatebase.org) has led to legitimate questions about how the world’s largest database of hate speech can be used to analyse hateful...
