by Sentinel Project | May 10, 2011 | Kenya, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project has initiated a new situation of concern (SOC) regarding the high risk of genocide in Kenya. Our research team recently applied the first phase of the early warning process by conducting a comprehensive risk assessment that took into account the...
by Sentinel Project | May 9, 2011 | Team Announcements
UPDATED August 5th 2013 Please read a more updated description of the current state of Threatwiki http://thesentinelproject.org/introducing-threatwiki-3-0-warsaw-a-big-update-for-sentinel-projects-genocide-risk-tracking-platform/ — For the past few months, the...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 15, 2011 | Team Announcements
Sentinel Project team members Collin Sullivan, Christopher Tuckwood and Taneem Talukdar had the opportunity to meet with Congressman Tim Walz, the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, on Friday. In 1993, Congressman Walz was a teacher...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 11, 2011 | Team Announcements
Our blog has been quiet lately, but things have been busier than they’ve ever been at the Sentinel Project over the last month. We’ve been making great progress and a lot of it will be coming together and released publicly in a few weeks. We will be...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 27, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern
Recent weeks have seen a large number of incidents targeting Iranian Baha’is: February 12 Two female Baha’i leaders transferred to harsher prison conditions The Baha’i World News Service carried a press release from the Baha’i International Community...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 12, 2011 | General News
As we reported in an earlier blog post, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in the United States has initiated a project to study mass atrocity response operations (MARO). These efforts seek to articulate a doctrine by which military forces all around the world...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 9, 2011 | General News
In a recent TED Talk called “Evil – What Makes People Go Wrong?”, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discussed the situational pressures that can lead people to commit what he terms “evil” acts against others, including torture, cruelty,...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 7, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern
In recent weeks, Iranian Baha’is have continued to be targeted in several ways: January 18 One arrest in Sari HRANA reports that upon being summoned to the local Ministry of Information office, Sari resident Fayzullah Rowshan was arrested and kept out of contact...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 3, 2011 | Team Announcements
A member of the Sentinel Project Research Team, Collin Sullivan, is currently attending the 2011 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California, where this year’s theme is “Making Data Work.” Strata is a great opportunity for Collin since he has a...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 22, 2011 | Team Announcements
During our research on different risk factors, we came across some references by different scholars to the way that a population’s ethnic composition can influence the likelihood of ethnic conflict and genocide. For example, Jane Springer explains that if one...