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The formation of international humanitarian law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jean Pictet
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To mark his seventieth birthday, Jean Pictet, Honorary Vice-President of the ICRC, gave a lecture at the University of Geneva on 16 November 1984 entitled “The formation of international humanitarian law”.

A remarkable summary of the development of humanitarian law in the twentieth century, it concludes with remarks which go well beyond the original subject. They express his thoughts about the difficult relationships between humanitarian imperatives and military and political necessities and between idealism and pragmatism; reference is also made to everyone's responsibility to disseminate and apply a law which stems not only from humanity but also from common sense.

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Principles and Law
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 34 , Issue 303 , December 1994 , pp. 526 - 531
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1994

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References

page 526 note 1 The full text of this lecture was published in the Review (No. 244, January–February 1985, pp. 3–24).