by Timothy Quinn | Jul 23, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Hatebase is both a hate speech lexicon and an aggregation of real-time incident data which we call “sightings” (i.e. actual incidents of hate speech for which we can establish both time and place). Although we value our robust vocabulary of multilingual,...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Jul 22, 2013 | General News
This post originally appeared on Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog. Here’s the link. My thesis topic, nonviolent responses to mass atrocities and genocide, is not the most straight forward. Few scholars have written about it in depth, and, if I do...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Jul 9, 2013 | Burma, General News, Team Announcements
*A version of this post originally appeared on Sentinel Project Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog, The Widening Lens. The Rohingya in Rakhine state, a Muslim ethnic group in a predominantly Buddhist country, are one of the most persecuted minority...
by Sean Langberg | Jul 8, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Approximately 160 million people died in wars during the 20th century. Nearly a million more have died in the 21st century, including during current conflicts in Iraq, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Burma, Syria, and more. Claims that we...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 4, 2013 | General News, Kyrgyzstan, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
By Scott Dempsey, Mercyhurst University Click here to read the full assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan. The Sentinel Project has completed an assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan, finding it to be unlikely within the next five years. Our team...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jun 19, 2013 | General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
A recurrence of the inter-ethnic violence of the early 1990s hinges on the possibility of conventional war in Nagorno-Karabakh The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 sparked war and ethnic cleansing in the Central Caucus region, as former states of the multinational...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 14, 2013 | General News
By Dr. Faustin Z. Ntoubandi(Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)IntroductionIn order to liberate mankind from the odious scourge of genocide, States are under an obligation to prevent and punish acts constitutive of the crime of genocide. Article I of the...
by Brad Nazar | Jun 6, 2013 | General News
Note: This post is about analysing hate speech. The images below contain hateful terms. The Sentinel Project’s release of Hatebase (www.hatebase.org) has led to legitimate questions about how the world’s largest database of hate speech can be used to analyse hateful...
by Sentinel Project | May 23, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Technology is changing the nature of human rights The Sentinel Project is excited to offer the brand new course Introduction to Technology for Human Rights running for five weeks from 10 June to 14 July 2013. Participants will learn about the relationship between...
by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | May 20, 2013 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
We are now ready to launch a visualization of the persecution against the Baha’i community in Iran, our longest standing situation of concern being monitored at The Sentinel Project. Since November we have been using ThreatWiki, a genocide risk tracking and...
by Sentinel Project | May 18, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project has a longstanding interest in the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) to serve humanitarian purposes, especially in defending human rights and preventing atrocities. We have publicized the topic, started to explore the...
by Sentinel Project | May 8, 2013 | General News
II. Genocide and Other Underlying Offences (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) The paragraphs below provide a brief definition of genocide and other underlying offences as prohibited under Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment...
