by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 9, 2013 | Burma
Shortly before July, Time Magazine announced its intention to publish a cover story naming Wirathu, a militant nationalist Burmese monk, “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Until July, Wirathu was relatively obscure outside Burma, and although most were aware...
by Nora Rowley | Jul 29, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
The Development of Burma’s Authoritarian Rule and Depopulation of Targeted Ethnic Minorities including Rohingya Muslims of Arakan State Written by Nora E. Rowley M.D. M.P.H. August 22, 2012 Crimes and Human Rights Violations by Burma’s Ruling and...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Jul 9, 2013 | Burma, General News, Team Announcements
*A version of this post originally appeared on Sentinel Project Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog, The Widening Lens. The Rohingya in Rakhine state, a Muslim ethnic group in a predominantly Buddhist country, are one of the most persecuted minority...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 4, 2013 | General News, Kyrgyzstan, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
By Scott Dempsey, Mercyhurst University Click here to read the full assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan. The Sentinel Project has completed an assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan, finding it to be unlikely within the next five years. Our team...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jun 19, 2013 | General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
A recurrence of the inter-ethnic violence of the early 1990s hinges on the possibility of conventional war in Nagorno-Karabakh The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 sparked war and ethnic cleansing in the Central Caucus region, as former states of the multinational...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 8, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
This report summarizes the findings of a Sentinel Project field team which visited the Tana Delta region of Kenya in early 2013. The team conducted a survey related to a series of ethnic massacres which occurred between August 2012 and January 2013. Their report...
by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | May 20, 2013 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
We are now ready to launch a visualization of the persecution against the Baha’i community in Iran, our longest standing situation of concern being monitored at The Sentinel Project. Since November we have been using ThreatWiki, a genocide risk tracking and...
by Timothy Quinn | Mar 25, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Predicting genocide is, by definition, an almost impossible task due to the scarcity of early, actionable data. There’s no chi-squared test or Monte Carlo method for reliably distributing societies along a spectrum from homogeneous to homicidal, both because the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 21, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
At the end of February a small team from the Sentinel Project visited the Tana River District of eastern Kenya as part of our general election observation mission in the country. I had the privilege of serving on that team and want to outline here some of what we did,...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 12, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Last week, on March 4, Kenyans turned out in record numbers to vote for a variety of candidates ranging from local council representatives to the president. Naturally, most attention – including that of the international community – was turned towards the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 11, 2013 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
If you’ve been following the Sentinel Project’s social media updates recently, you’ll know that we just concluded our first-ever field work by sending a small team to Kenya, which was the second situation of concern (SOC) that we started monitoring....
by Troy Powell | Mar 8, 2013 | Iran, Situations of Concern
Hello Friends Our Iranian Bahá’í monthly reports have returned! We apologize for the hiatus they are now being published once again in an expanded monthly report format detailing the state of repression against the Iranian Bahá’ís occurring in the month of...
