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A New Phase For Peaceful Truth

A New Phase For Peaceful Truth

by Drew Boyd | Sep 9, 2019 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology

The Sentinel Project currently operates Peaceful Truth (www.peacefultruth.org), which is an action-research initiative in Mandalay, Myanmar focused on misinformation management and funded by the International Development Research Centre. Peaceful Truth currently...
Peace and Technology in Myanmar’s Royal City

Peace and Technology in Myanmar’s Royal City

by Drew Boyd | Apr 10, 2017 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology

Since 2015, the Sentinel Project has partnered with Burmese organizations to implement direct co-operation programs with at-risk communities.  One such initiative is Peaceful Truth, an effort to combat extremism and prevent the outbreak of violence in the city of...
Myanmar’s State of (Mis)Information

Myanmar’s State of (Mis)Information

by Drew Boyd | Nov 17, 2016 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika

The Sentinel Project recently completed a study of information and misinformation in the Mandalay region of Myanmar as part of setting up our Peaceful Truth project. This project grew out of our successful Una Hakika initiative in Kenya, which has demonstrated the...
New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a “Hybrid Genocide”?

New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a “Hybrid Genocide”?

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jun 7, 2015 | Burma, Situations of Concern

At the very end of April 2015, an unspecified number Rohingya Muslims, members of what many have called the “world’s most persecuted people,” began to receive disturbing text messages on their mobile phones. The messages implied that if their home...
The Sentinel Project Launches Conflict Tracking System

The Sentinel Project Launches Conflict Tracking System

by Drew Boyd | Feb 11, 2015 | Burma, Conferences, General News, Iran, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Situations of Concern, Sri Lanka, Technology

Sentinel CTS to be used for violence monitoring and tracking of emerging conflicts The Sentinel Conflict Tracking System is a data visualization platform that displays global conflicts being tracked by the Sentinel Project. The platform presents an interactive display...
Internationally Recognized Experts Join Sentinel Advisory Council

Internationally Recognized Experts Join Sentinel Advisory Council

by Drew Boyd | Feb 10, 2015 | Burma, Conferences, General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika

The Sentinel Project is pleased to announce the expansion of our advisory board. Patrick Meier is the Director of Social Innovation at Qatar Computing Research Institute and a luminary and leader in the application of new technologies for crisis-mapping, early...
Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Dec 22, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology

Civil war and ethnic cleansing have marred Burma’s ostensible transformation from Junta to democracy. In Rakhine State, the new era has been heralded by periodic outbreaks of mass violence involving mobs of Buddhist civilians waging pogroms on Muslim Rohingya...
Burma and the Margins of Genocide

Burma and the Margins of Genocide

by Dr. Kjell Anderson | Nov 2, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Introduction Genocide is widely seen as the world’s most serious crime. Consequently, it possesses a normative weight surpassing any other crime and victims often seek to define their collective suffering as being genocidal. The case of Burma provides an interesting...
Lighting the Spark: The Mobilization of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma

Lighting the Spark: The Mobilization of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma

by Dr. Kjell Anderson | Oct 24, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Kjell Anderson is a researcher and lecturer at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. He is also a member of the Council of Advisors of the Sentinel Project.   The Dynamics of Mass Violence Mass violence, such as genocide and crimes...
The Enemy Next Door: Hate Speech in Burma

The Enemy Next Door: Hate Speech in Burma

by Dr. Kjell Anderson | Oct 17, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Hate speech is a grave social harm. Even where it fails to provoke violence or immediate discrimination it can have the effect of deepening social divisions and creating the conditions necessary for future persecution and violence.   It moves societies away from...
Truth and Tribe: Religious and Ethnic Nationalism in Burma

Truth and Tribe: Religious and Ethnic Nationalism in Burma

by Dr. Kjell Anderson | Oct 9, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Dr. Kjell Anderson is a member of the Council of Advisors for the Sentinel Project. Additionally, he is a lecturer and researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (NIOD). This commentary is partly based on research conducted for a...
Cleansing the Past: Burma Continues Efforts to Erase Persecuted Rohingya

Cleansing the Past: Burma Continues Efforts to Erase Persecuted Rohingya

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Oct 6, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

At the end of 1932, genocide began in Ukraine. The Soviet-Russian government had made the decision to subjugate the Ukrainians by starving them. It was not a coincidence that 1932 was also the year that Moscow ceased publishing demographic data. The government was...
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