The Development of Burma’s Authoritarian Rule and Depopulation of Targeted Ethnic Minorities including Rohingya Muslims of Arakan State Written by Nora E. Rowley M.D. M.P.H. August 22, 2012 Crimes and Human Rights Violations by Burma’s Ruling and Government Military Against the...
At the Sentinel Project, we are big advocates of making the data we are creating openly available for everybody that wants access to it. Making our data available allows people of the public to learn from our data, create data visualization, gain new insights or create mashup with other sets of...
Hatebase is both a hate speech lexicon and an aggregation of real-time incident data which we call “sightings” (i.e. actual incidents of hate speech for which we can establish both time and place). Although we value our robust vocabulary of multilingual, regional hate speech, we...
This post originally appeared on Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog. Here’s the link. My thesis topic, nonviolent responses to mass atrocities and genocide, is not the most straight forward. Few scholars have written about it in depth, and, if I do say so myself, it’s very...
*A version of this post originally appeared on Sentinel Project Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog, The Widening Lens. The Rohingya in Rakhine state, a Muslim ethnic group in a predominantly Buddhist country, are one of the most persecuted minority groups in the world. Their...
Approximately 160 million people died in wars during the 20th century. Nearly a million more have died in the 21st century, including during current conflicts in Iraq, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Burma, Syria, and more. Claims that we live in the safest time in...
By Scott Dempsey, Mercyhurst University Click here to read the full assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan. The Sentinel Project has completed an assessment of the risk of genocide in Kyrgyzstan, finding it to be unlikely within the next five years. Our team of student analysts based at...
By: Alex Dyzenhaus The trials of war most affect a society’s vulnerable and marginalized. Therefore, in the context of a conflict, unprotected minorities can be at risk even if there is little to no explicit grievance against or hatred towards them. Through an analysis of dozens of political,...
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