by Christopher Tuckwood | Jun 20, 2020 | General News, Hagiga Wahid, Kenya, Situations of Concern, South Sudan, Uganda
In honour of World Refugee Day, all new donations that we receive over the next week (from now until the end of June 26) will be reserved specifically for supporting the Hagiga Wahid project in Uganda. Click here to donate. As we join people around the world in...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 31, 2020 | General News, Hagiga Wahid, Kijiji Cha Amani, Una Hakika
Anyone who has followed the Sentinel Project’s work in recent years will know that we’ve focused a lot on misinformation management in our efforts to prevent and mitigate atrocities. As our team has taken the model developed in Kenya and replicated it together with...
by John Green Otunga | Mar 31, 2020 | Hagiga Wahid, Situations of Concern, South Sudan
In 2011, two years after gaining independence, South Sudan plunged into a disastrous civil war that was marked by ethnic massacres, sexual violence that included children as its victims, the recruitment of child soldiers, and other atrocities that claimed hundreds of...
by The Sentinel Project | Mar 27, 2020 | Conferences
As the COVID-19 virus affects more and more countries around the world – 199 countries to date – questions are starting to be raised about the preparedness of the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh for the onset of the pandemic. Although cases have...
by The Sentinel Project | Jan 17, 2020 | Conferences
Over a million Rohingya refugees currently live in the Cox’s Bazaar region of Bangladesh. Although Rohingya people have fled into Bangladesh due to state-sanctioned genocide in Myanmar since the 1970s, the largest and latest exodus began in August 2017, when 742,000...
by The Sentinel Project | Oct 10, 2019 | Conferences
As the humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh continues unabated, and as Rohingyas face a precarious future in Myanmar, in the lead-up to the federal election, Canadian foreign policy becomes even more critical for concerned observers. On October 7th, the first official...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Sep 9, 2019 | Conferences
By Barnabas Samuel, Sebit Martin, and Christopher Tuckwood ————————————————– A critical part of starting any new initiative is for the Sentinel Project team to gather...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 9, 2019 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology
The Sentinel Project currently operates Peaceful Truth (www.peacefultruth.org), which is an action-research initiative in Mandalay, Myanmar focused on misinformation management and funded by the International Development Research Centre. Peaceful Truth currently...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 23, 2019 | Conferences
A photo of the Myanmar/Bangladesh border, separated by the Naf River Over the past couple of months, criticisms have flared up over the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in repatriating Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar. In...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 13, 2019 | Conferences
A view from the side of the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands, which houses the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the Peace Palace Library Addressing the seemingly...
