Great news! We’ve got our own t-shirts and would be glad to have you show your support for us! Details: The t-shirt will have the Sentinel shield and our name logo on the front. The back will have our message, “Genocide is Preventable” with our shield logo and the Sentinel...
We have some exciting news about a great opportunity for University of Toronto students in the Peace, Conflict, and Justice program to get involved with the Sentinel Project. Thanks to the efforts of Alex Dyzenhaus, one of our own team members, and Wendy Wong, the director of the Trudeau Centre...
I am pleased to announce that the Sentinel Project is the newest member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP). Following last week’s approval by the Coalition’s steering committee, we are now one of 45 members of an international network of organizations...
Everyone knows that ideas get better when you share them, so last week Collin Sullivan and I took the opportunity to attend the 3rd Global Conference on Genocide at San Francisco State University. The four-day event, organized by the International Network of Genocide Scholars, brought together...
Everyone knows that volunteering is important for a healthy society because when people give their time it means that organizations with limited resources can pursue worthy causes when they might have been otherwise held back by their inability to hire staff. The Sentinel Project fits this...
Last week I had the honour of representing the Sentinel Project at an international wokshop in Panama which addressed the topic of creating what is being called a “Regional Mechanism for Peace and Conflict Resolution” in Latin America. This multi-year initiative is being organized by...
Editor’s note: We recently had the honour of the Sentinel Project’s risk factor list being the subject of a thesis by Clarinda Solberg, who compared it to the statistical model developed by Barbara Harff. Clarinda used the two models to explore the possibility of genocide recurring in...
An important part of our work here at the Sentinel Project is to not only develop ideas for predicting and preventing genocide but also to share them as widely as possible. That’s why I was so pleased to be invited by the Arias Foundation to speak in Panama at an upcoming international...
Here at the Sentinel Project we recently took a step back and are reorganizing our team in order to overcome some challenges and get closer to accomplishing our mission. A major part of this effort has been to document the framework and process that our Research Team will use to predict genocide...
In an uncommon and very welcome move, Toronto City Council recently declared May 10 to be Will to Intervene Day. This move is the result of a joint initiative by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P)....
As a growing organization, we’re looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated volunteer to join the Sentinel Project and take on the role of Volunteer Coordinator. Your role will be to help us recruit talented, experienced, and passionate individuals into our various teams and working...
Anyone who knows the Sentinel Project knows that we’re big fans of technology. Whether it’s data visualization or flying robots, when we talk about genocide prevention, we’re also talking about new tools we can develop. However, technology has already been having an impact on the struggle for...
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