by Sentinel Project | Aug 29, 2011 | General News, Kyrgyzstan, Team Announcements
In June of 2010 the Kyrgyz Republic held a referendum which changed their form of government from a presidential system to a parliamentary democracy. In the lead-up to the referendum there was widespread ethnic violence. The majority of the violence was committed by...
by henry | Aug 14, 2011 | General News, Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
One summer morning I woke up in the bright city of Chicago, near the cornfields of Indiana. I went out to grab breakfast with two of my close friends and on our way back home, we stopped by the Bahá’í temple in Wilmette. This magnificent temple is a house of...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Aug 5, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
A few weeks ago, I had the great experience of attending a conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was an excellent opportunity to meet and connect with a lot of the leading thinkers addressing the problem of...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Aug 5, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Professor Amanda Grzyb, a member of the Sentinel Project’s new Advisory Council recently outlined the situation in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan in a Globe and Mail op-ed piece that she co-authored with Gerald Caplan. The article, entitled “Is there...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 31, 2011 | Iran, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Tracking the recent developments in Iran and the ordeals facing the Bahá’í community there has been a sobering task as these events reflect some disturbing trends worth mentioning. An important part of our situation monitoring and analysis is observing patterns and...
by henry | Jul 24, 2011 | Donations, General News, Team Announcements
On behalf of the Sentinel Project team, I would like to thank everyone who supported The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention on my birthday. In case you are still wondering what on Earth the Sentinel Project is, we were founded in 2008 and are based in Toronto....
by Sentinel Project | Jul 7, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Over the past few weeks members of The Sentinel Project have been following the events in Sudan with grave concern. News and NGO reports out of Abyei have described what many have called ethnic cleansing, and what may amount to genocide. Khartoum’s security...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 2, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Approximately 2 months ago, the Sentinel Project launched the first prototype of Threatwiki to start actively tracking two situations of concern: Kenya and Iran. We’ve learned a lot from the initial monitoring process that we’ve build around the system,...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 16, 2011 | Team Announcements
We’re looking for a few interns to work with us through the summer (or beyond) on a project based in the San Francisco Bay area. The project is primarily an administrative and operational one, so interested persons with a background in nonprofit management and...
by Sentinel Project | Jun 9, 2011 | General News, Team Announcements
Welcome back everyone, I just wanted to write a blog post to inform you all on some of the things that have been going on with our team! If you have not read my previous post, my name is Rahma Adnan, and I am a recent addition to the research team at the Sentinel...
by Sentinel Project | May 10, 2011 | Kenya, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project has initiated a new situation of concern (SOC) regarding the high risk of genocide in Kenya. Our research team recently applied the first phase of the early warning process by conducting a comprehensive risk assessment that took into account the...
by Sentinel Project | May 9, 2011 | Team Announcements
UPDATED August 5th 2013 Please read a more updated description of the current state of Threatwiki http://thesentinelproject.org/introducing-threatwiki-3-0-warsaw-a-big-update-for-sentinel-projects-genocide-risk-tracking-platform/ — For the past few months, the...