New Public Report: Globally Scaling Digital Solutions for Managing Misinformation by Sentinel Project How do we know that something we hear or read is accurate? What conventions or practices help us...
World + 3 more
World + 3 more
New Public Report: Globally Scaling Digital Solutions for Managing Misinformation by Sentinel Project How do we know that something we hear or read is accurate? What conventions or practices help us...
DR Congo + 2 more
Gender equity has always been a crucial aspect of the Sentinel Project's work. This is demonstrated well by misinformation management projects, in which engaging both men and women is essential due...
Kenya + 7 more
In March 2021, the Kenyan government issued a 14-day ultimatum to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop a plan to close the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps in the...
China + 1 more
January 12, 2021 We, the undersigned human rights and genocide prevention organizations, and individual practitioners, are deeply concerned over mounting evidence that Chinese government policies...
by John Green In 2011, two years after gaining independence, South Sudan plunged into a disastrous civil war that was marked by ethnic massacres, sexual violence that included children as its...
Bangladesh + 1 more
As the COVID-19 virus affects more and more countries around the world – 199 countries to date – questions are starting to be raised about the preparedness of the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh + 1 more
by Yuriko Cowper-Smith Over a million Rohingya refugees currently live in the Cox’s Bazaar region of Bangladesh. Although Rohingya people have fled into Bangladesh due to state-sanctioned genocide in...
Uganda + 1 more
By Barnabas Samuel, Sebit Martin, and Christopher Tuckwood A critical part of starting any new initiative is for the Sentinel Project team to gather data about the local context and beneficiary...
Myanmar + 1 more
by Yuriko Cowper-Smith Addressing the seemingly intractable Rohingya genocide and the humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh requires looking at all possible international legal options. The continued...
Myanmar + 3 more
by Yuriko Cowper-Smith Diasporas can play a significant role – both positive and negative – in the development and politics of their countries of origin. For example, academic researchers have...
South Sudan + 1 more
We’re always working to expand the Sentinel Project’s programs into new areas where we can help and this week marks an important milestone as well as the beginning of a long-awaited new phase in our...
Kenya + 1 more
Humanitarian aerospace is one of the cutting-edge fields in which the Sentinel Project operates, through its subsidiary initiative Sarus Humanitarian Aerospace. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), also...
Preparing for elections Prior to the August general election, Amani FM invited Steven Karani, the district returning officer of Tana Delta, to the studio so that he could educate community members on...
The Una Hakika rumour management system has long been a core part of the Sentinel Project’s work in Kenya. Seeing the negative effects of false information led us to create this mobile phone-based...
As the twilight begins in a Tana Delta village, someone awakes and steps outside to answer the call of nature. She stops, then turns to run back to her hut, panting and trembling. “I have seen them...
Sentinel has launched a civilian protection pilot project in partnership with at-risk communities in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Called Kijiji Cha Amani...
Adrian Gregorich Between August 2012 and January 2013, the Tana Delta area of eastern Kenya experienced a series of massacres between the Orma and Pokomo ethnic groups. The killings took the lives of...
November 17, 2016 | Drew Boyd The Sentinel Project recently completed a study of information and misinformation in the Mandalay region of Myanmar as part of setting up our Peaceful Truth project...
Executive summary In 2012 and 2013, a series of inter-ethnic massacres between the Orma and Pokomo ethnic groups in Kenya’s Tana Delta threw the local community into chaos. In order to understand why...