Predicting genocide is, by definition, an almost impossible task due to the scarcity of early, actionable data. There’s no chi-squared test or Monte Carlo method for reliably distributing societies along a spectrum from homogeneous to homicidal, both because the extermination of entire...
By Dr. Faustin Z. Ntoubandi(Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)IntroductionThis is the first in a series of short notes on genocide that will provide readers with a general understanding of the meaning and implications of genocide as one of the most serious crimes in the history of mankind....
At the end of February a small team from the Sentinel Project visited the Tana River District of eastern Kenya as part of our general election observation mission in the country. I had the privilege of serving on that team and want to outline here some of what we did, what we learned, and what...
Last week, on March 4, Kenyans turned out in record numbers to vote for a variety of candidates ranging from local council representatives to the president. Naturally, most attention – including that of the international community – was turned towards the vote for the country’s...
If you’ve been following the Sentinel Project’s social media updates recently, you’ll know that we just concluded our first-ever field work by sending a small team to Kenya, which was the second situation of concern (SOC) that we started monitoring. Abhishek and I returned home...
Hello Friends Our Iranian Bahá’í monthly reports have returned! We apologize for the hiatus they are now being published once again in an expanded monthly report format detailing the state of repression against the Iranian Bahá’ís occurring in the month of January. Click here to read...
Technology has opened many doors and has provided us the opportunity for memorializing our lives in many different ways, but what consequences await such an approach? And more importantly, how does this affect our ability to remember the people, events, and circumstances that matter most?...
A few weeks ago volunteers at the Sentinel Project were invited to attend the opening of the “To Me, There’s No Other Choice – Raoul Wallenberg 1912-2012” exhibit at the Toronto Reference Library. Highlighting the life and humanitarian work of Raoul Wallenberg, a dedicated...
The Sentinel Project is excited to have former US ambassador Jack Chow, an advocate for humanitarian drones, join us as an advisor. He will be assisting our team as we develop new ideas about these devices and build prototypes in the near future. Many of our supporters know that we’ve had a...
We’re excited to offer our new Human Rights and Technology training course over five weeks (two hours of evening class per week) starting on 15 January 2013. Students will learn the relationship between technological tools and human rights through a combination of theory and real-world case...
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