by Sentinel Project | Aug 28, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
We have some exciting news about a great opportunity for University of Toronto students in the Peace, Conflict, and Justice program to get involved with the Sentinel Project. Thanks to the efforts of Alex Dyzenhaus, one of our own team members, and Wendy Wong, the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 28, 2012 | General News
Over 200 Kenyans have been killed in ethnic clashes since January, according to the head of Kenya’s Red Cross, warning the unrest follows patterns of violence seen ahead of previous elections. Kenya is gearing up for a general election in March, the first since...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 22, 2012 | General News
September 21 is Peace Day. The day is dedicated to peace, or specifically to the absence of war. It provides an opportunity for people across the world to take part in activities that promote and further peace and unity. It was established in 1981 to coincide with the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 20, 2012 | Burma, General News, Indonesia, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project is expanding the scope of its monitoring work to include situations of concern (SOCs) in four new countries. These countries were selected by balancing their apparent risk levels with our own resources and ability to have a positive impact. The...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jul 30, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
I am pleased to announce that the Sentinel Project is the newest member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP). Following last week’s approval by the Coalition’s steering committee, we are now one of 45 members of an international...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jul 5, 2012 | Conferences, General News, Team Announcements
Everyone knows that ideas get better when you share them, so last week Collin Sullivan and I took the opportunity to attend the 3rd Global Conference on Genocide at San Francisco State University. The four-day event, organized by the International Network of Genocide...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 18, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Everyone knows that volunteering is important for a healthy society because when people give their time it means that organizations with limited resources can pursue worthy causes when they might have been otherwise held back by their inability to hire staff. The...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 14, 2012 | General News, Iran, Situations of Concern
We have now compiled a summary of all the events in Iran which targeted the Bahá’í community during the month of April 2012. In an unusually positive development, Muslim parents openly defended their Bahá’í neighbours at a public meeting in Najafabad after two Bahá’í...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jun 13, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Last week I had the honour of representing the Sentinel Project at an international wokshop in Panama which addressed the topic of creating what is being called a “Regional Mechanism for Peace and Conflict Resolution” in Latin America. This multi-year...
by Sentinel Project | May 28, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Editor’s note: We recently had the honour of the Sentinel Project’s risk factor list being the subject of a thesis by Clarinda Solberg, who compared it to the statistical model developed by Barbara Harff. Clarinda used the two models to explore the...