by Sentinel Project | Nov 3, 2010 | General News
On 31 October 2010, the Sentinel Project core team gathered together in Toronto to conduct our Annual Strategic Review (ASR). The aim of this meeting was to examine our progress over the past year, highlight strengths and weaknesses, and set goals for the year ahead....
by Sentinel Project | Nov 3, 2010 | General News
On 28 October 2010, the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide hosted an event about the role of hate speech in the genocidal process. Guests at the talk, entitled “Dangerous Speech on the Road to Genocide,” saw...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 2, 2010 | General News
The Sentinel Project team is inviting all of our blog readers, Twitter followers, and Facebook members to help us out with information gathering. While we are still looking for committed volunteers to take on specific roles in fundraising, technology, public...
by Sentinel Project | Oct 25, 2010 | General News
The Sentinel Project is pleased to welcome two new additions to our team in South America. Marcelo Valenca, based in Brazil, will be our primary correspondent for South America as contacts are developed in other countries. Bruna Lima, also in Brazil, will be assisting...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 21, 2010 | General News
New technologies and media are central to the Sentinel Project’s mission. However, just as these developments can help to prevent genocide, they can also be used to perpetrate it by inciting hatred and organizing violence. In her article “Putting Hate...
by Taneem Talukdar | Sep 20, 2010 | General News
As our research team continues to develop the risk assessment process, our engineering team has been working on putting together the core software platform to support the final anticipated process. This is a quick update about progress being made on this. From a...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 18, 2010 | General News
The Sentinel Project early warning system (EWS) is a two-stage process. First, it examines the structural characteristics of a society that predispose it to genocide. Second, it monitors ongoing events to track the development of genocidal processes. For the last...
by Taneem Talukdar | Aug 5, 2010 | General News
In a previous post we discussed the basics of the approach we are taking to developing an information model of at-risk communities. This really just means a structured approach to organizing all the information we have about the situation we are monitoring. Our goal...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 5, 2010 | General News
Genocide is a complex problem and predicting and responding to it are usually constrained by several factors including geography, the difficulty of information gathering, international legality, and political will (within the state in question and outside of it)....
by Taneem Talukdar | Jun 11, 2010 | General News
We have been making some good progress on developing our Early Warning System (EWS), a rigorous and transparent process for monitoring and predicting when a community is at risk of genocide. In the spirit of making our process “open source”, I am sharing...
by Sentinel Project | May 15, 2010 | General News
The University of Waterloo website has profiled the Sentinel Project since all of the founders were UW alumni. Check out the article here.
by Sentinel Project | May 2, 2010 | General News
General Dallaire spoke about his experiences in Rwanda 16 years ago and the importance of increasing the will and capacity in government to respond to genocide today:
