by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | Nov 6, 2012 | General News
In 2011, Sentinel Project launched ThreatWiki – a genocide risk tracking and visualization platform to help monitor communities at risk of genocide around the world. We are proud to announce today a major update. ThreatWiki is a platform that helps the Sentinel...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 1, 2012 | General News
Between April and June 1994, more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed over the span of approximately 100 days, leaving the entire country in ruins and its people reeling in the aftermath. Today, Rwanda is a more stable country but the...
by henry | Oct 21, 2012 | General News
After visiting the Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany in 1945, Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces recounted, “The things I saw beggar description. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty...
by Sentinel Project | Oct 1, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Great news! We’ve got our own t-shirts and would be glad to have you show your support for us! Details: The t-shirt will have the Sentinel shield and our name logo on the front. The back will have our message, “Genocide is Preventable” with our...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 25, 2012 | General News
The volunteers at the Sentinel Project were recently invited to a new public photo exhibit, called “I’m Still Here” at the Oz Studios in Toronto. Featuring the works of Emily Cavan, a freelance writer and humanitarian aid worker, the exhibit was...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 10, 2012 | General News
A group of 67 of the world’s top genocide experts from 10 different countries are calling on the Obama Administration to launch an immediate humanitarian intervention in Sudan. On 27 August, an open letter was issued by Operation Broken Silence detailing the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 28, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
We have some exciting news about a great opportunity for University of Toronto students in the Peace, Conflict, and Justice program to get involved with the Sentinel Project. Thanks to the efforts of Alex Dyzenhaus, one of our own team members, and Wendy Wong, the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 28, 2012 | General News
Over 200 Kenyans have been killed in ethnic clashes since January, according to the head of Kenya’s Red Cross, warning the unrest follows patterns of violence seen ahead of previous elections. Kenya is gearing up for a general election in March, the first since...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 22, 2012 | General News
September 21 is Peace Day. The day is dedicated to peace, or specifically to the absence of war. It provides an opportunity for people across the world to take part in activities that promote and further peace and unity. It was established in 1981 to coincide with the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 20, 2012 | Burma, General News, Indonesia, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project is expanding the scope of its monitoring work to include situations of concern (SOCs) in four new countries. These countries were selected by balancing their apparent risk levels with our own resources and ability to have a positive impact. The...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jul 30, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
I am pleased to announce that the Sentinel Project is the newest member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP). Following last week’s approval by the Coalition’s steering committee, we are now one of 45 members of an international...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jul 5, 2012 | Conferences, General News, Team Announcements
Everyone knows that ideas get better when you share them, so last week Collin Sullivan and I took the opportunity to attend the 3rd Global Conference on Genocide at San Francisco State University. The four-day event, organized by the International Network of Genocide...
