by Sentinel Project | Sep 18, 2010 | General News
The Sentinel Project early warning system (EWS) is a two-stage process. First, it examines the structural characteristics of a society that predispose it to genocide. Second, it monitors ongoing events to track the development of genocidal processes. For the last...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 27, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released a statement today urging Iran to counter the discrimination that its minorities face everyday. While the Committee focuses on racial and ethnic prejudices, the statement also mentioned the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 10, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The top seven leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community are now reported to have been sentenced to 20 years in prison. They were arrested in May 2008 and held without charge for 18 months before being charged with such crimes as “propaganda against the...
by Taneem Talukdar | Aug 5, 2010 | General News
In a previous post we discussed the basics of the approach we are taking to developing an information model of at-risk communities. This really just means a structured approach to organizing all the information we have about the situation we are monitoring. Our goal...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 5, 2010 | General News
Genocide is a complex problem and predicting and responding to it are usually constrained by several factors including geography, the difficulty of information gathering, international legality, and political will (within the state in question and outside of it)....
by Taneem Talukdar | Jun 11, 2010 | General News
We have been making some good progress on developing our Early Warning System (EWS), a rigorous and transparent process for monitoring and predicting when a community is at risk of genocide. In the spirit of making our process “open source”, I am sharing...
by Sentinel Project | May 15, 2010 | General News
The University of Waterloo website has profiled the Sentinel Project since all of the founders were UW alumni. Check out the article here.
by Sentinel Project | May 2, 2010 | General News
General Dallaire spoke about his experiences in Rwanda 16 years ago and the importance of increasing the will and capacity in government to respond to genocide today:
by Sentinel Project | Apr 30, 2010 | General News
We’ve started work on the early warning system (EWS), but there’s a long way to go before it’s up and running. Our priority right now is to survey all the work that’s been done on genocide prevention and synthesize it into a working system. The...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 29, 2010 | General News
This article by our executive director can be found on page 18: iAM eMagazine
