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The International Review of the Red Cross and the protection of civilians, c. 1919–1939

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2019

Ben Holmes
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This article will use past issues of the International Review of the Red Cross to examine how the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) has engaged with the issue of civilian protection over the course of its history. Although founded to organize humanitarian relief and legal protection for wounded and sick combatants, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the wider Movement have increasingly incorporated civilian war victims into their remit since their establishment. Yet, as this article will highlight, this process has not been straightforward. Focussing on the critical period between the two World Wars, the article will use the Review to illustrate why the Red Cross began engaging with the “civilianization” of conflicts in response to the threat of new technologies like gas and aerial bombardment. Using articles from the Review to highlight the key challenges faced by the Movement in protecting civilians over this period, it will also consider the gaps in the Red Cross's initial conceptions of who “the civilian” was, why belligerents attacked them, and what was the best means of protecting them.

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aerial bombardmentchemical warfarecivilianscivilianizationFirst World WarSecond World Warinternational humanitarian lawprotection
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 100 , Issue 907-909: 150 years of humanitarian reflection , April 2018 , pp. 115 - 141
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7 Henceforth, this article will refer to the Bulletin International des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (published between 1869 and 1918) as the Bulletin. It will refer to the International Review of the Red Cross (or the Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, published from 1919 to the present) as the Review. All quotations from French-language articles have been translated by the author.

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