by Sentinel Project | Jul 7, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Over the past few weeks members of The Sentinel Project have been following the events in Sudan with grave concern. News and NGO reports out of Abyei have described what many have called ethnic cleansing, and what may amount to genocide. Khartoum’s security...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 2, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Approximately 2 months ago, the Sentinel Project launched the first prototype of Threatwiki to start actively tracking two situations of concern: Kenya and Iran. We’ve learned a lot from the initial monitoring process that we’ve build around the system,...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 17, 2011 | General News
Over the past few months I’ve had the good fortune to represent The Sentinel Project at a few conferences in the San Francisco Bay area, where I’m based. The conferences were a diverse array of learning and networking opportunities, as each focused on a different...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 14, 2011 | General News
One of the newest members of our team, Tom Balemesa, was fortunate enough to attend the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) second annual conference on Preventing Violent Conflict. This is his report. The field of peacebuilding has evolved over time and the USIP...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 9, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Welcome back everyone, I just wanted to write a blog post to inform you all on some of the things that have been going on with our team! If you have not read my previous post, my name is Rahma Adnan, and I am a recent addition to the research team at the Sentinel...
by Sentinel Project | May 12, 2011 | General News
The CUTC (http://cutc.ca/) conference is a major event that draws students interested in science, technology and entrepreneurship across Canada each year. This year we were invited to set up a table at the Tech Expo part of the event. We don’t usually do a lot...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 12, 2011 | General News
As we reported in an earlier blog post, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in the United States has initiated a project to study mass atrocity response operations (MARO). These efforts seek to articulate a doctrine by which military forces all around the world...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 9, 2011 | General News
In a recent TED Talk called “Evil – What Makes People Go Wrong?”, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discussed the situational pressures that can lead people to commit what he terms “evil” acts against others, including torture, cruelty,...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 21, 2011 | General News
UN Dispatch has reported a statement from the United Nations which warns of the possibility of genocide in Ivory Coast, where opposing sides continue to face off over a disputed presidential election in late 2010. Francis Deng, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 7, 2011 | General News
CNN recently published an op-ed piece by Chris Taylor and Anthony Zinni, “Military needs response plan to genocide.” In it, Taylor and Zinni outline the need for a standard military doctrine to guide responses to genocide and mass atrocities. Such events...
by Sentinel Project | Jan 1, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
An exciting new initiative launched by actor George Clooney, Google, several anti-genocide NGOs and the United Nations will use commercial satellites to monitor Sudan in preparation for the upcoming referendum on independence for the southern half of the country. The...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 3, 2010 | General News
The Advocate General of Argentina, in concert with a humanitarian organization, has called upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH). The CIDH is a branch of the Organization of American States, and its attention has been called in this case following...
