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International Red Cross and Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jacques Freymond
Jacques Freymond*
Affiliation:
Member of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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Extract

The subject I shall deal with is one that traditionally comes up for discussion, to the point of growing stale. Innumerable resolutions and recommendations on “Red Cross and Peace” have been voted by delegates to International Red Cross Conferences. One might even say that this type of recommendation, which of course is addressed to all responsible governments, has become a feature of every Red Cross gathering.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 12 , Issue 131 , February 1972 , pp. 65 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1972

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Footnotes

1

Address delivered at the Annual Dinner of the American-Swiss Association, New York, on 10 November 1971.

References

page 66 note 1 Cf. Freymond, Jacques, “How the Small Countries can Contribute to Peace”, in Small States in International Relations, ed. by Schou, August and Brundtland, Arne Olav, Nobel Symposium 17, 1971.Google Scholar

page 70 note 1 During the War of Secession, the United States called upon Lieber to draw up a code of rules for armies in the field. This code, which was promulgated in 1863 under the title of “Code of War for the Government and Armies of the United States in the Field”, preceded the first Geneva Convention by one year and thus laid the foundationstone of humanitarian law. (See Revue Internationale, 05 1953 Google Scholar; Revue Internationale, English Supplement, 09 1953.)Google Scholar

page 71 note 1 Resolution No. 1 adopted by the Council of Delegates, Mexico City, 8 October 1971, on the role of National Societies in the Development of Humanitarian Law. See International Review, 12 1971.Google Scholar