by Sentinel Project | Jun 18, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Everyone knows that volunteering is important for a healthy society because when people give their time it means that organizations with limited resources can pursue worthy causes when they might have been otherwise held back by their inability to hire staff. The...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 14, 2012 | General News, Iran, Situations of Concern
We have now compiled a summary of all the events in Iran which targeted the Bahá’í community during the month of April 2012. In an unusually positive development, Muslim parents openly defended their Bahá’í neighbours at a public meeting in Najafabad after two Bahá’í...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jun 13, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Last week I had the honour of representing the Sentinel Project at an international wokshop in Panama which addressed the topic of creating what is being called a “Regional Mechanism for Peace and Conflict Resolution” in Latin America. This multi-year...
by Sentinel Project | May 28, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Editor’s note: We recently had the honour of the Sentinel Project’s risk factor list being the subject of a thesis by Clarinda Solberg, who compared it to the statistical model developed by Barbara Harff. Clarinda used the two models to explore the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 22, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
An important part of our work here at the Sentinel Project is to not only develop ideas for predicting and preventing genocide but also to share them as widely as possible. That’s why I was so pleased to be invited by the Arias Foundation to speak in Panama at...
by Sentinel Project | May 20, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Here at the Sentinel Project we recently took a step back and are reorganizing our team in order to overcome some challenges and get closer to accomplishing our mission. A major part of this effort has been to document the framework and process that our Research Team...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 10, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
In an uncommon and very welcome move, Toronto City Council recently declared May 10 to be Will to Intervene Day. This move is the result of a joint initiative by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and the Canadian Centre for the...
by Sentinel Project | May 5, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
As a growing organization, we’re looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated volunteer to join the Sentinel Project and take on the role of Volunteer Coordinator. Your role will be to help us recruit talented, experienced, and passionate individuals into our...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 4, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Anyone who knows the Sentinel Project knows that we’re big fans of technology. Whether it’s data visualization or flying robots, when we talk about genocide prevention, we’re also talking about new tools we can develop. However, technology has already been having an...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 25, 2012 | General News
On Sunday, April 22, 2012, I was given the opportunity, with Abhishek, to attend the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide commemoration ceremony. Although much of the ceremony was conducted in Armenian, which I unfortunately do not understand, I was fortunate...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 14, 2012 | General News, Iran, Situations of Concern
[written by Andrew Miller] The act of genocide requires years of preparation since an attempt to wipe out a culture or a group through mass killings can’t be planned over night. Before purchasing the weapons and rounding up the victims, society needs to be persuaded...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 10, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
For those of you who don’t know me yet, my name is Emily Tamfo and for the last few months I have been interning for the Sentinel Project as part of the Media and the Public Interest program at the University of Western Ontario. My time with SP is now coming to a...
