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Security in ICRC field operations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Philippe Dind
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Extract

In any discussion about security, the primary consideration must be the need to preserve the neutrality, independence and impartiality of humanitarian action. This is the essential precondition for the ICRC's ability to protect and assist the victims of conflict. Sooner or later, any humanitarian activity which runs counter to these fundamental principles either incurs the mistrust of the people it intends to assist or becomes completely paralysed.

Type
Cooperation between National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 38 , Special Issue 323: Cooperation between National Societies and the ICRC , June 1998 , pp. 335 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998

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References

1 See Regulations concerning identification, Annex I to Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts.

2 In accordance with Resolution 9 (Armed protection of humanitarian assistance) of the Council of Delegates (Geneva, 1995), IRRC, No. 310, January-February 1996, pp. 150–151.