by The Sentinel Project | Nov 22, 2023 | General News
As global citizens with a moral responsibility to prevent and respond to atrocities, it can often feel as though our individual actions do not make an impact, and that the issues are so complex or partisan that we are not able to meaningfully engage. However, there...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 8, 2023 | Donations, General News
Today we mark fifteen years since the Sentinel Project’s founding on August 8th, 2008. Working to prevent atrocities, including the crime of genocide, the Sentinel Project has assisted more than 2 million people across South Sudan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya,...
by The Sentinel Project | Jun 2, 2023 | Early Warning, General News, Technology
Are you a Reformer? A Challenger? Or are you a Helper? Take the quiz and find out what type of human rights defender you are. Today, we invite you to find out and support the extraordinary and life-saving work of the Sentinel Project by taking the Human Rights...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 6, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Technology
How do we know that something we hear or read is accurate? What conventions or practices help us to establish whether a new piece of information is true or false? What is the harm in repeatedly receiving incorrect information? It seems as though it is becoming harder...
by Nishadi Gunatilake | Apr 24, 2022 | Early Warning, General News, Misinformation, Sri Lanka, Technology
The Sentinel Project ran a pilot misinformation management project in Sri Lanka from July 2021 to December 2021. This article examines the trends and patterns of misinformation observed in 2021 as a result of the project’s monitoring work, summarises some of the...
by Raashi Saxena | Mar 31, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Women
Gender equity has always been a crucial aspect of the Sentinel Project’s work. This is demonstrated well by misinformation management projects, in which engaging both men and women is essential due to their complementarity in conflict information ecosystems. In...
by The Sentinel Project | Sep 30, 2021 | General News, Misinformation
This infographic outlines the general misinformation management process that we use across our projects. Blog #1: How are misinformation, hate speech, and violence linked and what are their consequences? The Sentinel Project has spent a lot of time thinking about...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 31, 2021 | Early Warning, General News, Technology
Building on the extensive work of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Xinjiang Data Project, the Sentinel Project is working to analyze satellite imagery of locations of alleged detention and re-education facilities within the Xinjiang region. These...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 30, 2021 | Early Warning, General News
In early 2021, three graduate students – Alessandra Mooney, Allie Phillips, and Maddie Warman – from Georgetown’s Conflict Resolution MA program worked with the Sentinel Project to produce a framework for identifying what subnational factors make specific...
by The Sentinel Project | Jun 30, 2021 | General News, Situations of Concern, Yemen
This photo of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen by Rod Waddington was available via Wikimedia Commons Although the Sentinel Project does not currently have an active presence in Yemen, the country’s brutal, ongoing conflict is a situation of concern that our team has been...
by The Sentinel Project | Jun 29, 2021 | General News, Kenya
This landscape photo of Kakuma Refugee Camp by Matija Kovac was available via Wikimedia Commons. In March 2021, the Kenyan government issued a 14-day ultimatum to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop a plan to close the Kakuma and...
by The Sentinel Project | May 31, 2021 | General News
Our newest preliminary report outlines the results of recent efforts to better understand the gender-related dynamics in three of the countries where we work: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Uganda. In February and March 2021, we conducted...
