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,...
As we announced in a recent blog post, the Research Team has been making progress on a list of risk factors that increase the likelihood of genocide taking place in a given country. While this is definitely a milestone in our development, it is really just one part of a much larger and more...
Our Research Team is starting to wrap up its work on identifying and evaluating the risk factors which increase the likelihood of genocide in a given country. This effort began last year with a literature survey of various scholarly sources outlining the characteristics that predispose societies...
An exciting new initiative launched by actor George Clooney, Google, several anti-genocide NGOs and the United Nations will use commercial satellites to monitor Sudan in preparation for the upcoming referendum on independence for the southern half of the country. The coincidentally-named Satellite...
On 12 December 2010, members of the Sentinel Project met in Toronto to discuss changes to the governance structure of the organization and confirm the new board of directors. Generally speaking, the aim of these changes was to define membership status in the organization, design a board structure,...
We are pleased to welcome Sara Alimardani to the Operations Team here at the Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention. Sara holds a master’s degree in international relations and her interest lies predominantly in human security. She has done extensive research on war and conflict...
On 15 November 2010, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and Mémorial de la Shoah co-hosted the International Symposium on Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Paris, France. Samantha Power, a special assistant to President Barack Obama on human rights issues and authour of...
The Inter Press Service (IPS) has published an article about the role of hate speech and propaganda in fueling genocide, in which our executive director Christopher Tuckwood is quoted. This article follows on the heels of a recent United Nations event on “Dangerous Speech on the Road to Genocide”...
The Toronto Emergency Management Symposium is an annual event where representatives from Canadian and American emergency services, emergency management agencies, private companies, and NGOs come together to discuss the latest issues in their field. The Sentinel Project’s executive director,...
We are proud to be recognized in the 2010 GPN International Directory of Holocaust and Genocide Organizations as one of 4 organizations from Canada. To read more about this Directory, you can visit http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/.
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