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...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 29, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
We are pleased to announce that Professor Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota has joined the Sentinel Project’s Advisory Council, where he will share his expertise on hate speech and harmful language. For a detailed outline of Professor...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 22, 2013 | Donations, General News, Team Announcements
[Published on behalf of Deborah Durbin] Having just turned 25, it’s time that I take responsibility for my role in global society. My parents give 5% of their income to charity so I am doing the same. There are obviously many worthwhile causes; I have decided to...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Apr 19, 2013 | Donations, General News, Team Announcements
Okay, “welcome” might be a bit presumptuous since we haven’t actually created the Sentinel Hub yet but we’ve got a plan and we’re going to make this happen. So what is the Sentinel Hub, you ask? In short, it will be Canada’s (and...
by Timothy Quinn | Mar 25, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Predicting genocide is, by definition, an almost impossible task due to the scarcity of early, actionable data. There’s no chi-squared test or Monte Carlo method for reliably distributing societies along a spectrum from homogeneous to homicidal, both because the...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 24, 2013 | General News
By Dr. Faustin Z. Ntoubandi(Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)IntroductionThis is the first in a series of short notes on genocide that will provide readers with a general understanding of the meaning and implications of genocide as one of the most serious crimes...
by Erin Kirkpatrick | Feb 8, 2013 | General News
Technology has opened many doors and has provided us the opportunity for memorializing our lives in many different ways, but what consequences await such an approach? And more importantly, how does this affect our ability to remember the people, events, and...
by Erin Kirkpatrick | Jan 24, 2013 | General News
A few weeks ago volunteers at the Sentinel Project were invited to attend the opening of the “To Me, There’s No Other Choice – Raoul Wallenberg 1912-2012” exhibit at the Toronto Reference Library. Highlighting the life and humanitarian work of...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jan 2, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project is excited to have former US ambassador Jack Chow, an advocate for humanitarian drones, join us as an advisor. He will be assisting our team as we develop new ideas about these devices and build prototypes in the near future. Many of our...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 23, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
We’re excited to offer our new Human Rights and Technology training course over five weeks (two hours of evening class per week) starting on 15 January 2013. Students will learn the relationship between technological tools and human rights through a combination...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 12, 2012 | General News
The Rohingyas have been subjugated to mistreatment for years, but a recent wave of targeted ethnic violence towards the community has led to a humanitarian crisis in Rakhine. Since the unrest began in June, thousands of Rohingyas have been forcibly relocated to...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 22, 2012 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project has updated its annual assessment on the risk of genocide in Kenya and has maintained Kenya as a situation of concern with the “High” risk rating established in 2011. Our teams of analysts have revised the original report to reflect recent...
