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...
by Christine Mutisya | Dec 2, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika
Getting Direct Feedback Over the past two weeks a Sentinel Project team has been in Kenya’s Tana Delta conducting focus groups in the various villages in which our Una Hakika initiative has been implemented. The free information service seeks to counteract...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 18, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Technology, Technology Roles, Una Hakika
Writings on the subject of practical unmanned aerial system (UAS) applications in the humanitarian field have exploded in recent years, but actual, real-world applications have lagged far behind in large part because of unanswered questions about their use. What the...
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...
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...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 22, 2014 | General News, Situations of Concern, Technology
The Sentinel Project has launched its humanitarian aerospace initiative with plans to deploy ‘humanitarian drones’ in conflict zones around the world. The long term goal is to demonstrate the value of overlapping multi-vehicle unmanned aerial systems for...
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...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 14, 2014 | General News, Iran, Situations of Concern, Technology
Sentinel Project partners with Colorado-based non-profit Space United, allows supporters to directly contribute to ‘humanitarian aerospace’ goals. The public perception of satellite imagery often conjures up visions of high-tech military hardware or the cloak and...
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...
by Christine Mutisya | Oct 8, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern
Kenya has been relatively peaceful in the month of September in comparison to previous months. Security has been enhanced in most counties and fewer incidents of violence have been noted. However, this does not give Kenya a clean slate in terms of security. The reason...
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...
by Adrian Gregorich | Sep 23, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Una Hakika
“On August 22nd 2012, the Pokomos came to Reketa village and they killed 56 people. That morning I was in Dide Waride, and we tried to go and save our people in Rekata. When we came to Reketa we had seen 56 people dead. All of them speared, and some of them were cut...
