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Peace and Technology in Myanmar’s Royal City

Peace and Technology in Myanmar’s Royal City

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...
Securing the Delta: An Analysis of Rumour Propagation in Tana Delta

Securing the Delta: An Analysis of Rumour Propagation in Tana Delta

by Christine Mutisya | Dec 1, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika

Numerous explanations have been proposed for the spread of misinformation in the world. The most common of these rumours are inaccurate or incomplete information or for vested interest. Kenya’s Tana Delta is a region rife with rumours and in the past two years Una...
Violence Prevention From the Ground Up

Violence Prevention From the Ground Up

by Adrian Gregorich | Sep 30, 2015 | Conferences, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika

An interview with Drew Boyd, Director of Operations at the Sentinel Project How has Una Hakika worked with authorities to prevent the spread of rumours that may lead to violence? Drew: Una Hakika set out from the very beginning to plug into as many different and...
Open Street Map in the Central African Republic

Open Street Map in the Central African Republic

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...

The Practice of Dispelling Rumours in Tana Delta

by John Green Otunga | Aug 17, 2015 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika

The question of the role of rumours in conflict begs an understanding into their construction, channels of distribution, their velocity, and their believability in the minds of local communities. True to any multi-ethnic community in Kenya, rumours are key in...
New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a “Hybrid Genocide”?

New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a “Hybrid Genocide”?

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jun 7, 2015 | Burma, Situations of Concern

At the very end of April 2015, an unspecified number Rohingya Muslims, members of what many have called the “world’s most persecuted people,” began to receive disturbing text messages on their mobile phones. The messages implied that if their home...
Sentinel Focus: John Otunga Discusses How Rumours Lead To Violence

Sentinel Focus: John Otunga Discusses How Rumours Lead To Violence

by Drew Boyd | Jan 30, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Technology, Una Hakika

This Sentinel Focus feature highlights John Otunga, Project Co-ordinator for The Sentinel Project’s (https://thesentinelproject.org/) Una Hakika initiative. Una Hakika (Swahili for ‘Are you sure?’) is a program launched in 2013 to use...
Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Dec 22, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology

Civil war and ethnic cleansing have marred Burma’s ostensible transformation from Junta to democracy. In Rakhine State, the new era has been heralded by periodic outbreaks of mass violence involving mobs of Buddhist civilians waging pogroms on Muslim Rohingya...
Burma and the Margins of Genocide

Burma and the Margins of Genocide

by Dr. Kjell Anderson | Nov 2, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Introduction Genocide is widely seen as the world’s most serious crime. Consequently, it possesses a normative weight surpassing any other crime and victims often seek to define their collective suffering as being genocidal. The case of Burma provides an interesting...
Lighting the Spark: The Mobilization of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma

Lighting the Spark: The Mobilization of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma

by Dr. Kjell Anderson | Oct 24, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Kjell Anderson is a researcher and lecturer at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. He is also a member of the Council of Advisors of the Sentinel Project.   The Dynamics of Mass Violence Mass violence, such as genocide and crimes...

The Future of Una Hakika

by Adrian Gregorich | Feb 14, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements

In this interview Drew Boyd, the Sentinel Project’s Kenya Situation of Concern Team Lead, weighs in on rumour-spreading in the Tana Delta, emerging trends in our field research and aspirations for the future of Una Hakika. What were your expectations for the Una...

Una Hakika: Insights from the Field

by John Green Otunga | Feb 7, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements

by John Green and Christine Mutisya After a long, eventful journey we finally reached the Tana Delta – Garsen town to be specific. As we are both from Nairobi, we experienced a drastic change in the climate, Garsen being very hot and dusty. The level of development,...
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