by Drew Boyd | Jan 14, 2021 | Conferences, General News, Situations of Concern
Open Letter of Concern to Governments on Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Against Uyghurs in China January 14, 2021 We, the undersigned human rights and genocide prevention organizations, and individual practitioners, are deeply concerned over mounting evidence...
by Drew Boyd | May 12, 2017 | General News, Technology
Sentinel has launched a civilian protection pilot project in partnership with at-risk communities in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Called Kijiji Cha Amani (Swahili for ‘peace village’), the project focuses on...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 10, 2017 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology
Since 2015, the Sentinel Project has partnered with Burmese organizations to implement direct co-operation programs with at-risk communities. One such initiative is Peaceful Truth, an effort to combat extremism and prevent the outbreak of violence in the city of...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 18, 2015 | General News, Technology
The following article was contributed by Ines Zebdi What is Open Street Map and what is HOT ? Open Street Map (OSM) is a collaborative project aiming to create a free and open map of the world made by volunteers with GPS images, digitizing aerial imagery and...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 11, 2015 | Burma, Conferences, General News, Iran, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Situations of Concern, Sri Lanka, Technology
Sentinel CTS to be used for violence monitoring and tracking of emerging conflicts The Sentinel Conflict Tracking System is a data visualization platform that displays global conflicts being tracked by the Sentinel Project. The platform presents an interactive display...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 10, 2015 | Burma, Conferences, General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika
The Sentinel Project is pleased to announce the expansion of our advisory board. Patrick Meier is the Director of Social Innovation at Qatar Computing Research Institute and a luminary and leader in the application of new technologies for crisis-mapping, early...
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 Sentinel Project | Jan 10, 2014 | General News
The Sentinel Project has finalized an assessment on the risk of mass atrocities in Sri Lanka. Almost five years after the end of the civil war, the assessment reflects that the mass atrocity risk in Sri Lanka remains high and addresses some of the underlying sources...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Dec 9, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Responsibility to Protect doctrine, instituted in 2005, exemplifies the dominant paradigm for action during mass atrocities: international intervention. While R2P places primary responsibility on states, the international community is nonetheless positioned as the...
