by Sentinel Project | May 5, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
As a growing organization, we’re looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated volunteer to join the Sentinel Project and take on the role of Volunteer Coordinator. Your role will be to help us recruit talented, experienced, and passionate individuals into our...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 4, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
Anyone who knows the Sentinel Project knows that we’re big fans of technology. Whether it’s data visualization or flying robots, when we talk about genocide prevention, we’re also talking about new tools we can develop. However, technology has already been having an...
by Sentinel Project | Apr 10, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
For those of you who don’t know me yet, my name is Emily Tamfo and for the last few months I have been interning for the Sentinel Project as part of the Media and the Public Interest program at the University of Western Ontario. My time with SP is now coming to a...
by henry | Apr 7, 2012 | General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
U.S.A – Last weekend, I represented the Sentinel Project at the Indiana Genocide Prevention Summit hosted by Global Solutions (formerly known as Citizens for Global Solutions), at the Indianapolis Inter-church Center Corp in Indianapolis, Indiana. The summit was...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Apr 2, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Last week, I had the honour of speaking on a panel at the Toronto screening of Education Under Fire, a film about the exclusion of Bahá’ís from Iranian universities and colleges and the crackdown on the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). The evening was a...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 26, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention has been tracking the systematic harassment and persecution of Iran’s Bahá’í community for several years, with the fear that this religious group, Iran’s largest minority religion with around 300,000 members, may be the...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 21, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
[written by Rebeka Seyfried] We are coming upon the final ten weeks of our academic year at Mercyhurst University and while the weather is getting better, our team is working harder on the term’s final output for the Sentinel Project. The past few months have been...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 18, 2012 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project’s research team is constantly seeking to improve the flow of information surrounding our situations of concern (SOC). After all, information is the key to predicting genocide and the more knowledge we can gather about events happening in a...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 7, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[Please note that these are my own personal thoughts and not official Sentinel Project policy.] Lately I’ve been reflecting on our work here at the Sentinel Project and exactly what it means. We obviously talk a lot about prevention and the key role played by early...
by Sentinel Project | Mar 6, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
As the old saying goes, knowledge is power. Today, with the help of researcher Rachel Hatcher, the Sentinel Project team gained some expert knowledge on the history and context surrounding the Guatemalan genocide. Rachel is currently in Guatemala researching the ways...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 22, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[written by Emily Tamfo] It’s not surprising that in recent years, film seems to be one of the most effective means of conveying provocative topics such as genocide (Hotel Rwanda is but one example). Not only does film have the unique ability to captivate an audience...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 13, 2012 | General News, Team Announcements
[written by Tuan Nguyen and Erika Suzuki] We are excited and proud to announce that our campus chapter at UC Berkeley has been selected to attend the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University. Tuan and Erika, the chapter’s co-directors, will travel to George...
