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The Geneva Convention of 1864 and the Brussels Conference of 1874

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Danièle Bujard
Danièle Bujard*
Affiliation:
Deputy Head of the ICRC Legal Division
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Abstract

The year 1974 marks the centennial of the International Declaration of Brussels on the Laws and Customs of War. This effort to codify the most important laws of war, undertaken on the initiative of Czar Alexander II of Russia, constituted a decisive stage in the development of the law of war. It is this event which the Committee for the Protection of Human Life in Armed Conflicts, under the patronage of the Belgian Government, proposes to commemorate by an international seminar on the theme “The Concept of International Armed Conflict—New Perspectives”, in December of this year.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 14 , Issue 163 , October 1974 , pp. 527 - 537
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1974

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References

page 528 note 1 Our translation from the original French. The same applies to all the other quotations.

page 529 note 1 Boissier, P., Histoire du Comite International de la Croix-Rouge, de Solferino a Tsoushima, Paris 1963, p. 382.Google Scholar

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