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...
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...
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 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...
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