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,...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 12, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Last week, on March 4, Kenyans turned out in record numbers to vote for a variety of candidates ranging from local council representatives to the president. Naturally, most attention – including that of the international community – was turned towards the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 11, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
If you’ve been following the Sentinel Project’s social media updates recently, you’ll know that we just concluded our first-ever field work by sending a small team to Kenya, which was the second situation of concern (SOC) that we started monitoring....
by Troy Powell | Mar 8, 2013 | Iran, Situations of Concern
Hello Friends Our Iranian Bahá’í monthly reports have returned! We apologize for the hiatus they are now being published once again in an expanded monthly report format detailing the state of repression against the Iranian Bahá’ís occurring in the month of...
by Erin Kirkpatrick | Feb 8, 2013 | General News
Technology has opened many doors and has provided us the opportunity for memorializing our lives in many different ways, but what consequences await such an approach? And more importantly, how does this affect our ability to remember the people, events, and...
by Erin Kirkpatrick | Jan 24, 2013 | General News
A few weeks ago volunteers at the Sentinel Project were invited to attend the opening of the “To Me, There’s No Other Choice – Raoul Wallenberg 1912-2012” exhibit at the Toronto Reference Library. Highlighting the life and humanitarian work of...