As summer draws to an end and students make their way back to school this September, the Sentinel Project will be rolling out its first University Chapter. As you may or may not know, the Toronto SP team has been working hard all summer developing new programs to increase awareness, expand SP...
In May 2011 the Sentinel Project released a report on the risk of genocide in Kenya. We are now pleased to announce the release of a revised version of this report (click here for a PDF of the report), which better reflects the conditions in Kenya and why we have declared it to be a situation of...
Genocide is a complex issue and predicting and preventing it is definitely an ambitious task. Here at the Sentinel Project, we know that we don’t have all the answers and that it’s going to take time and a lot of work to solve this problem. This is why we enthusiastically collaborate with other...
In June of 2010 the Kyrgyz Republic held a referendum which changed their form of government from a presidential system to a parliamentary democracy. In the lead-up to the referendum there was widespread ethnic violence. The majority of the violence was committed by ethnic Kyrgyz against the...
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...
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