The Sentinel Project has initiated a new situation of concern (SOC) regarding the high risk of genocide in Kenya. Our research team recently applied the first phase of the early warning process by conducting a comprehensive risk assessment that took into account the set of risk factors identified...
UPDATED August 5th 2013 Please read a more updated description of the current state of Threatwiki http://thesentinelproject.org/introducing-threatwiki-3-0-warsaw-a-big-update-for-sentinel-projects-genocide-risk-tracking-platform/ — For the past few months, the Sentinel Project has been...
Sentinel Project team members Collin Sullivan, Christopher Tuckwood and Taneem Talukdar had the opportunity to meet with Congressman Tim Walz, the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, on Friday. In 1993, Congressman Walz was a teacher at Alliance High School in...
Our blog has been quiet lately, but things have been busier than they’ve ever been at the Sentinel Project over the last month. We’ve been making great progress and a lot of it will be coming together and released publicly in a few weeks. We will be launching our second active...
Recent weeks have seen a large number of incidents targeting Iranian Baha’is: February 12 Two female Baha’i leaders transferred to harsher prison conditions The Baha’i World News Service carried a press release from the Baha’i International Community reporting that Fariba...
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 would be able to plan and...
In a recent TED Talk called “Evil – What Makes People Go Wrong?”, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discussed the situational pressures that can lead people to commit what he terms “evil” acts against others, including torture, cruelty, killing, and genocide....
In recent weeks, Iranian Baha’is have continued to be targeted in several ways: January 18 One arrest in Sari HRANA reports that upon being summoned to the local Ministry of Information office, Sari resident Fayzullah Rowshan was arrested and kept out of contact after being transferred to an...
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 strong interest in using...
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 group is numerically dominant,...
UN Dispatch has reported a statement from the United Nations which warns of the possibility of genocide in Ivory Coast, where opposing sides continue to face off over a disputed presidential election in late 2010. Francis Deng, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Edward Luck,...
Three recent events highlight the ongoing actions against Baha’is in Iran: January 14 Raid on “Achilan Doors”: Four Arrests HRANA (English translation available here) reports that security agents raided Achilan Doors, a manufacturing company based in Mashhad, arresting a company...
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