by Christopher Tuckwood | Apr 2, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Last week, I had the honour of speaking on a panel at the Toronto screening of Education Under Fire, a film about the exclusion of Bahá’ís from Iranian universities and colleges and the crackdown on the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). The evening was a...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 26, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention has been tracking the systematic harassment and persecution of Iran’s Bahá’í community for several years, with the fear that this religious group, Iran’s largest minority religion with around 300,000 members, may be the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 21, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
[written by Rebeka Seyfried] We are coming upon the final ten weeks of our academic year at Mercyhurst University and while the weather is getting better, our team is working harder on the term’s final output for the Sentinel Project. The past few months have been...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 18, 2012 | General News
The Sentinel Project welcomes Elizabeth Kellett to her new position as Research Coordinator. Elizabeth has already been an asset to the Research Team through her work on the forthcoming Burma situation of concern, so we are very excited about what the future will...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 18, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project’s research team is constantly seeking to improve the flow of information surrounding our situations of concern (SOC). After all, information is the key to predicting genocide and the more knowledge we can gather about events happening in a...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 12, 2012 | General News
Last Thursday night, moviegoers crowded into the TIFF Bell Lightbox in downtown Toronto to watch the screening of director Pamela Yates’s heavily anticipated Granito: How to Nail a Dictator. Before the film even began, the long line just to get into the theatre was a...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 7, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[Please note that these are my own personal thoughts and not official Sentinel Project policy.] Lately I’ve been reflecting on our work here at the Sentinel Project and exactly what it means. We obviously talk a lot about prevention and the key role played by early...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 6, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
As the old saying goes, knowledge is power. Today, with the help of researcher Rachel Hatcher, the Sentinel Project team gained some expert knowledge on the history and context surrounding the Guatemalan genocide. Rachel is currently in Guatemala researching the ways...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 29, 2012 | General News
[Blog post by Rebecca Dixon] Our Mount Allison chapter will be bringing attention to the Situation of Concern in Iran this week as it co-hosts a film screening of the documentary Letters from Iran. We are very excited to have Dr. Hans von Sponeck, a former United...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 22, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[written by Emily Tamfo] It’s not surprising that in recent years, film seems to be one of the most effective means of conveying provocative topics such as genocide (Hotel Rwanda is but one example). Not only does film have the unique ability to captivate an audience...
