by Sentinel Project | May 23, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Technology is changing the nature of human rights The Sentinel Project is excited to offer the brand new course Introduction to Technology for Human Rights running for five weeks from 10 June to 14 July 2013. Participants will learn about the relationship between...
by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | May 20, 2013 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
We are now ready to launch a visualization of the persecution against the Baha’i community in Iran, our longest standing situation of concern being monitored at The Sentinel Project. Since November we have been using ThreatWiki, a genocide risk tracking and...
by Sentinel Project | May 18, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project has a longstanding interest in the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) to serve humanitarian purposes, especially in defending human rights and preventing atrocities. We have publicized the topic, started to explore the...
by Sentinel Project | May 8, 2013 | General News
II. Genocide and Other Underlying Offences (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) The paragraphs below provide a brief definition of genocide and other underlying offences as prohibited under Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 29, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
We are pleased to announce that Professor Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota has joined the Sentinel Project’s Advisory Council, where he will share his expertise on hate speech and harmful language. For a detailed outline of Professor...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 22, 2013 | Donations, General News, Team Announcements
[Published on behalf of Deborah Durbin] Having just turned 25, it’s time that I take responsibility for my role in global society. My parents give 5% of their income to charity so I am doing the same. There are obviously many worthwhile causes; I have decided to...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Apr 19, 2013 | Donations, General News, Team Announcements
Okay, “welcome” might be a bit presumptuous since we haven’t actually created the Sentinel Hub yet but we’ve got a plan and we’re going to make this happen. So what is the Sentinel Hub, you ask? In short, it will be Canada’s (and...
by Timothy Quinn | Mar 25, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Predicting genocide is, by definition, an almost impossible task due to the scarcity of early, actionable data. There’s no chi-squared test or Monte Carlo method for reliably distributing societies along a spectrum from homogeneous to homicidal, both because the...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 24, 2013 | General News
By Dr. Faustin Z. Ntoubandi(Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)IntroductionThis is the first in a series of short notes on genocide that will provide readers with a general understanding of the meaning and implications of genocide as one of the most serious crimes...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 21, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
At the end of February a small team from the Sentinel Project visited the Tana River District of eastern Kenya as part of our general election observation mission in the country. I had the privilege of serving on that team and want to outline here some of what we did,...
