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Localized Early Warning: Predicting Atrocities at the Subnational Level

Localized Early Warning: Predicting Atrocities at the Subnational Level

by The Sentinel Project | Mar 25, 2021 | Conferences, Early Warning, General News

Mass atrocities such as genocide are not spontaneous events but rather planned, intentional actions, which means that they are also predictable and preventable. This basic premise is a foundational principle of the Sentinel Project’s mission as we seek to assist...
The Sentinel Project Launches Conflict Tracking System

The Sentinel Project Launches Conflict Tracking System

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...
Internationally Recognized Experts Join Sentinel Advisory Council

Internationally Recognized Experts Join Sentinel Advisory Council

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...
Support Peace This Holiday Season With Sentinel Gifts

Support Peace This Holiday Season With Sentinel Gifts

by Drew Boyd | Dec 8, 2014 | Donations, General News, Technology

The Sentinel Project has officially launched its Sentinel Gift feature.  This holiday season you can do your gift shopping and support the Sentinel Project at the same time.  Our gift catalog offers items you won’t find in any store.  Early warning drones,...
Humanitarian Drones: Perceptions vs. Reality in Kenya’s Tana Delta

Humanitarian Drones: Perceptions vs. Reality in Kenya’s Tana Delta

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...
Sentinel Project Launches Humanitarian Aerospace Initiative

Sentinel Project Launches Humanitarian Aerospace Initiative

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...

US military explores the use of drones for stopping #genocide and mass atrocities (#genprev)

by Sentinel Project | Feb 12, 2011 | General News

As we reported in an earlier blog post, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in the United States has initiated a project to study mass atrocity response operations (MARO). These efforts seek to articulate a doctrine by which military forces all around the world...

Sentinel Project research analyst Collin Sullivan attending Strata Conference (#strataconf)

by Sentinel Project | Feb 3, 2011 | Team Announcements

A member of the Sentinel Project Research Team, Collin Sullivan, is currently attending the 2011 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California, where this year’s theme is “Making Data Work.” Strata is a great opportunity for Collin since he has a...

Help Request: Information on population demographics that make ethnic conflict more likely (please RT, #genprev)

by Sentinel Project | Jan 22, 2011 | Team Announcements

During our research on different risk factors, we came across some references by different scholars to the way that a population’s ethnic composition can influence the likelihood of ethnic conflict and genocide. For example, Jane Springer explains that if one...

Research Team: Overview of our planned genocide early warning process (#genprev)

by Sentinel Project | Jan 11, 2011 | Team Announcements

As we announced in a recent blog post, the Research Team has been making progress on a list of risk factors that increase the likelihood of genocide taking place in a given country. While this is definitely a milestone in our development, it is really just one part of...

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