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International Committee of the Red Cross: Development of National Societies and co-operation: The ICRC contribution, 1981-1987

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jeanne Egger
Jeanne Egger*
Affiliation:
Former Deputy Head Co-operation and Dissemination Division, Engaged in research at the ICRC
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Extract

Henry Dunant's prediction falls short of the terrible reality of 125 years later. Weapons of destruction are infinitely sophisticated, armed clashes are more lethal than ever but paradoxically none the shorter. Every new conflict makes clear the deliberate intention to do away with any distinction between combatants and non-combatants and, worse still, to take the civilian population as a target.

Type
Development and Co-Operation Within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 28 , Issue 264 , June 1988 , pp. 245 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1988

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References

1 Strategy for the Development of National Societies in the Eighties, adopted by the second session of the General Assembly of the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the XXIVth International Conference of the Red Cross, Manila, November 1981, Annex: “ICRC contribution to the development of National Societies”, LRCS, 1982, p. 17.