by Troy Powell | Sep 16, 2013 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
By: Troy Powell & Shayan Edalati “New Analyst Shayan Edalati lends his analysis, to the situation facing the Iranian Bahá’ís in January 2012. This report, will be the first in a series of updated revisions, which introduce a new format for our monthly...
by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | Sep 10, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new live visualization of the situation in Burma, though we are equally dismayed at the escalating persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority that it displays. Nonetheless, the Sentinel Project team is confident that this...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Sep 9, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project has released a report assessing the risk of genocide against Muslim minorities in Burma and has found the risk level to be high in light of intensified persecution. The initial enthusiasm surrounding recent political reform in Burma has recently...
by Sacha Stein | Aug 30, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
This month marked the 25th anniversary of the 8/8/88 Uprising, a nationwide strike that led to protests across Burma by activists calling for a transition from military rule to democracy. Pro-democracy demonstrations had also taken place earlier that year and led to...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 27, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The following blog series by the Sentinel Project’s Steven Kiersons explores how the physical sciences and Western philosophy contributed to the modern phenomenon of genocide and totalitarianism. Kiersons illustrates how the rise of scientism following the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 19, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Iranian pro-democracy demonstrators in 2009 used social media to organize and document their protests. Here, an opposition supporter films a protest on her mobile phone. (Source) Technology is changing the nature of human rights The Sentinel Project is excited to...
by Troy Powell | Aug 13, 2013 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
What happens when intervention and humanitarian efforts are blocked at the highest levels of government? Despite the technological progress society has enjoyed, the unprecedented spread of information and the ongoing development of international laws, interventions...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Aug 8, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
*This post is the first of two that look at nonviolent, local responses to mass atrocities. This post looks at the causes of mass atrocities and the reasons for nonviolent, local responses.”Local communities, especially when geographically isolated, often need...
by Timothy Quinn | Jul 23, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Hatebase is both a hate speech lexicon and an aggregation of real-time incident data which we call “sightings” (i.e. actual incidents of hate speech for which we can establish both time and place). Although we value our robust vocabulary of multilingual,...
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 Sean Langberg | Jul 8, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Approximately 160 million people died in wars during the 20th century. Nearly a million more have died in the 21st century, including during current conflicts in Iraq, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Burma, Syria, and more. Claims that we...
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...