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War and the Red Cross : the unspoken mission / Nicholas O. Berry.

Title
War and the Red Cross : the unspoken mission / Nicholas O. Berry.
Author
Berry, Nicholas O.
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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x, 159 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
Wars in the post-Cold War era are overwhelmingly internal or civil. These wars are also defined by a high level of barbarity, indicated by the violent persecution of the majority of their victims: women, children, and the elderly. This has convinced the world's premier war-relief organization, the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to take on a new, unspoken mission: to make these wars dysfunctional and end them. Because this mission, if proclaimed, would complicate the Red Cross' main mission of war relief and the protection of war victims, the ICRC has proceeded with little fanfare. Nevertheless, it has developed an intricate and ambitious strategy to accomplish its goals. War and the Red Cross: The Unspoken Mission describes that strategy and shows how it has been put into operation in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Guatemala. Concluding with an analysis of the tragic slayings in 1996 of Red Cross personnel in Chechnya, Nicholas Berry offers a ground breaking vision of the Red Cross at the end of the twentieth century.
Subject
  • Internationales Rotes Kreuz
  • Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz
  • Red Cross and Red Crescent
  • Humanitarian assistance
  • Pacific settlement of international disputes
  • Peaceful change (International relations)
  • War > Termination
  • Red Cross
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-153) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The main mission: the origins and development of the Red Cross -- The unspoken mission: undermining civil wars -- Guiding the international community -- Lobbying the peacekeepers -- Operations in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, and Afghanistan -- Guatemala -- A new contract of humanity -- Epilogue: Chechnya and the hazards of the unspoken mission.
ISBN
031216517X
LCCN
^^^96048926^
OCLC
  • 35856247
  • SCSB-10093443
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library