by Sentinel Project | Dec 13, 2013 | General News
November saw the escalation of violence along the northern border with Ethiopia as Marsabit County (and the town of Moyale in particular) has witnessed a rash of attacks which have imperiled the region. Similarly, the continuing conflict between Muslims and Christian...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Dec 9, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Responsibility to Protect doctrine, instituted in 2005, exemplifies the dominant paradigm for action during mass atrocities: international intervention. While R2P places primary responsibility on states, the international community is nonetheless positioned as the...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 6, 2013 | General News
A Report from the 12th Session of the Assembly of State Parties of the ICC The Sentinel Project’s policy advisor Dr. Kjell Anderson recently attended the twelfth session of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Assembly of State...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 4, 2013 | Burma, General News
Rohingya refugees carry rice distributed by WFP to their house in Nayapara camp. UNHCR – S. Kritsanavarin – Nov 2008 Violence against Rohingya Muslims has remained relatively steady this month. The attacks usually seem to take the form of either direct...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 1, 2013 | General News
Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day. It may surprise you to find coverage of this event on a genocide-prevention blog, but there’s actually a big overlap between the two tragedies of genocide and AIDS. To see this connection clearly, we need only examine the...
by Adrian Gregorich | Nov 28, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements, Technology
In this last post of our blog series on the humanitarian use of drones we look at two closely related issues that call into question the current use of armed drones and raise a serious point of discussion for the humanitarian use of this technology. These two issues...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 23, 2013 | General News, Iran
Over the first 3 months of 2012, our sources show instances of Stages 1 (Classification) 3 (Dehumanization) 4 (Polarization) and 5 (Preparation) of Gregory Stanton’s Eight Stage model of the genocidal process. Events and analysis of this quarter were...
by Adrian Gregorich | Nov 18, 2013 | General News
A few weeks ago we discussed the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for social good, and presented ways in which drones could contribute to genocide prevention. But while there is great humanitarian potential for drones, several challenges lie ahead. Chief among...
by Nora Rowley | Nov 13, 2013 | General News
I wrote about a series of events, witnessing the universal father-son bonds and the impact when they were lost by deadly attacks upon Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine. Father-and-Son Moments Lost Written April 2013 A bearded man and little boy with the same eyes share a...
by Nora Rowley | Nov 12, 2013 | General News
The crippling government and Rakhine abuse of Rohingya has been building for decades. When I was first in Burma and Rakhine State I witnessed many many shameful abuses of kind and peaceful Rohingya people. The following is an episode that exposed the deep...
by Nora Rowley | Nov 12, 2013 | General News
As I begin my blog about Human Rights in Burma, focusing on the Rohingya I would like to share various writings about my experiences with Rohingya. Written February 2013. “We want peace,“ were the Rohingya’s sentiments expressed to me again, as I recently...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Nov 12, 2013 | General News
The following blog series by the Sentinel Project’s Steven Kiersons explores how the physical sciences and Western philosophy contributed to the modern phenomenon of genocide and totalitarianism. Kiersons illustrates how the rise of scientism following the discoveries...
