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New Public Report: Globally Scaling Digital Solutions for Managing Misinformation

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...

Findings and Lessons Learned from Our Pilot Misinformation Management Project in Sri Lanka

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...

Women at the core of the Sentinel Project’s peacebuilding activities

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...
The Sentinel Project’s blog series on misinformation, hate speech, and violence

The Sentinel Project’s blog series on misinformation, hate speech, and violence

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...
Satellite imagery analysis shows extent of detention centre expansion and security

Satellite imagery analysis shows extent of detention centre expansion and security

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...

Developing a community vulnerability scorecard

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...
Yemen’s intractable, invisible civil war

Yemen’s intractable, invisible civil war

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...
Closing Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps: Thoughts from the ground

Closing Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps: Thoughts from the ground

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...
Gendering misinformation management: Preliminary results from our baseline surveys

Gendering misinformation management: Preliminary results from our baseline surveys

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...
Bahá’í persecution in Yemen: Spotlighting Kayvan Ghaderi’s story

Bahá’í persecution in Yemen: Spotlighting Kayvan Ghaderi’s story

by The Sentinel Project | May 5, 2021 | General News

Guest blog post by Karen Webb The Sentinel Project has long identified the serious persecution of the Bahá’í religious minority in Iran as a case of potential genocide. In fact, this one was of the very first situations of concern that our team declared after founding...
The 2022 Kenyan General Election: An Analysis of New and Enduring Violence Risk Factors

The 2022 Kenyan General Election: An Analysis of New and Enduring Violence Risk Factors

by The Sentinel Project | Mar 29, 2021 | Donations, General News, Kenya, Una Hakika

Kenya is set to hold a general election on 9 August 2022, which will see changes for all elected positions within the government, including members of parliament, senators, and the presidency. President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto currently...
Localized Early Warning: Predicting Atrocities at the Subnational Level

Localized Early Warning: Predicting Atrocities at the Subnational Level

by The Sentinel Project | Mar 25, 2021 | Conferences, Early Warning, General News

Mass atrocities such as genocide are not spontaneous events but rather planned, intentional actions, which means that they are also predictable and preventable. This basic premise is a foundational principle of the Sentinel Project’s mission as we seek to assist...
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