One summer morning I woke up in the bright city of Chicago, near the cornfields of Indiana. I went out to grab breakfast with two of my close friends and on our way back home, we stopped by the Bahá’í temple in Wilmette. This magnificent temple is a house of worship that stands for light and...
A few weeks ago, I had the great experience of attending a conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was an excellent opportunity to meet and connect with a lot of the leading thinkers addressing the problem of genocide, and I will be sure to...
Professor Amanda Grzyb, a member of the Sentinel Project’s new Advisory Council recently outlined the situation in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan in a Globe and Mail op-ed piece that she co-authored with Gerald Caplan. The article, entitled “Is there enough political will to stop...
Tracking the recent developments in Iran and the ordeals facing the Bahá’í community there has been a sobering task as these events reflect some disturbing trends worth mentioning. An important part of our situation monitoring and analysis is observing patterns and tracking how they develop. This...
On behalf of the Sentinel Project team, I would like to thank everyone who supported The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention on my birthday. In case you are still wondering what on Earth the Sentinel Project is, we were founded in 2008 and are based in Toronto. We are a family of volunteers...
Over the past few weeks members of The Sentinel Project have been following the events in Sudan with grave concern. News and NGO reports out of Abyei have described what many have called ethnic cleansing, and what may amount to genocide. Khartoum’s security forces have sustained a massive...
Approximately 2 months ago, the Sentinel Project launched the first prototype of Threatwiki to start actively tracking two situations of concern: Kenya and Iran. We’ve learned a lot from the initial monitoring process that we’ve build around the system, and we’re currently doing...
Over the past few months I’ve had the good fortune to represent The Sentinel Project at a few conferences in the San Francisco Bay area, where I’m based. The conferences were a diverse array of learning and networking opportunities, as each focused on a different theme relevant to the Sentinel...
We’re looking for a few interns to work with us through the summer (or beyond) on a project based in the San Francisco Bay area. The project is primarily an administrative and operational one, so interested persons with a background in nonprofit management and NGO development are...
One of the newest members of our team, Tom Balemesa, was fortunate enough to attend the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) second annual conference on Preventing Violent Conflict. This is his report. The field of peacebuilding has evolved over time and the USIP conference examined where it is...
Welcome back everyone, I just wanted to write a blog post to inform you all on some of the things that have been going on with our team! If you have not read my previous post, my name is Rahma Adnan, and I am a recent addition to the research team at the Sentinel Project, and I am currently...
The CUTC (http://cutc.ca/) conference is a major event that draws students interested in science, technology and entrepreneurship across Canada each year. This year we were invited to set up a table at the Tech Expo part of the event. We don’t usually do a lot of group outreach like this, so...
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