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Peace and Technology in Myanmar’s Royal City

by sen_admin | Apr 10, 2017 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology

Peace and Technology in Myanmar’s Royal City

Since 2015, the Sentinel Project has partnered with Burmese organizations to implement direct co-operation programs with at-risk communities.  One such initiative is Peaceful Truth, an effort to combat extremism and prevent the outbreak of violence in the city of Mandalay using new methods of...

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Securing the Delta: An Analysis of Rumour Propagation in Tana Delta

by sen_admin | Dec 1, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika

Securing the Delta: An Analysis of Rumour Propagation in Tana Delta

Numerous explanations have been proposed for the spread of misinformation in the world. The most common of these rumours are inaccurate or incomplete information or for vested interest. Kenya’s Tana Delta is a region rife with rumours and in the past two years Una Hakika has been mapping and...

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Violence Prevention From the Ground Up

by sen_admin | Sep 30, 2015 | Conferences, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika

Violence Prevention From the Ground Up

An interview with Drew Boyd, Director of Operations at the Sentinel Project How has Una Hakika worked with authorities to prevent the spread of rumours that may lead to violence? Drew: Una Hakika set out from the very beginning to plug into as many different and varied groups as possible and local...

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Open Street Map in the Central African Republic

by sen_admin | Sep 18, 2015 | General News, Technology

Open Street Map in the Central African Republic

The following article was contributed by Ines Zebdi What is Open Street Map and what is HOT ? Open Street Map (OSM) is a collaborative project aiming to create a free and open map of the world made by volunteers with GPS images, digitizing aerial imagery and geographic data, in order to fill the...

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by sen_admin | Aug 17, 2015 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika

The Practice of Dispelling Rumours in Tana Delta

The question of the role of rumours in conflict begs an understanding into their construction, channels of distribution, their velocity, and their believability in the minds of local communities. True to any multi-ethnic community in Kenya, rumours are key in determining peace and stability. Tana...

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New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a "Hybrid Genocide"?

by sen_admin | Jun 7, 2015 | Burma, Situations of Concern

New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a "Hybrid Genocide"?

At the very end of April 2015, an unspecified number Rohingya Muslims, members of what many have called the “world’s most persecuted people,” began to receive disturbing text messages on their mobile phones. The messages implied that if their home region, Rakhine State, were made...

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Sentinel Focus: John Otunga Discusses How Rumours Lead To Violence

by sen_admin | Jan 30, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Technology, Una Hakika

Sentinel Focus: John Otunga Discusses How Rumours Lead To Violence

This Sentinel Focus feature highlights John Otunga, Project Co-ordinator for The Sentinel Project’s (https://thesentinelproject.org/) Una Hakika initiative. Una Hakika (Swahili for ‘Are you sure?’) is a program launched in 2013 to use telecommunications in Kenya’s...

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Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

by sen_admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology

Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

Civil war and ethnic cleansing have marred Burma’s ostensible transformation from Junta to democracy. In Rakhine State, the new era has been heralded by periodic outbreaks of mass violence involving mobs of Buddhist civilians waging pogroms on Muslim Rohingya villagers and forcing them into...

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Burma and the Margins of Genocide

by sen_admin | Nov 2, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Burma and the Margins of Genocide

Introduction Genocide is widely seen as the world’s most serious crime. Consequently, it possesses a normative weight surpassing any other crime and victims often seek to define their collective suffering as being genocidal. The case of Burma provides an interesting case study of the boundaries of...

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Lighting the Spark: The Mobilization of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma

by sen_admin | Oct 24, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Lighting the Spark: The Mobilization of Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma

Kjell Anderson is a researcher and lecturer at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. He is also a member of the Council of Advisors of the Sentinel Project. The Dynamics of Mass Violence Mass violence, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, involves numerous...

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by sen_admin | Feb 14, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements

The Future of Una Hakika

In this interview Drew Boyd, the Sentinel Project’s Kenya Situation of Concern Team Lead, weighs in on rumour-spreading in the Tana Delta, emerging trends in our field research and aspirations for the future of Una Hakika. What were your expectations for the Una Hakika project in the Tana Delta?...

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by sen_admin | Feb 7, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements

Una Hakika: Insights from the Field

by John Green and Christine Mutisya After a long, eventful journey we finally reached the Tana Delta – Garsen town to be specific. As we are both from Nairobi, we experienced a drastic change in the climate, Garsen being very hot and dusty. The level of development, great network coverage and...

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