
War and the Red Cross
The Unspoken Mission
Nicholas O. Berry(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 23. June 1997
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-71360-0 (ISBN)
Description
Wars in the post-Cold War era are overwhelmingly internal or civil wars. Civilians, mostly women, children, and the elderly, make up over ninety percent of the casualties in these wars. This statistic has convinced the world's premier war-relief organization, the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to take on a new mission: to make these wars dysfunctional and to end them. Berry reveals how this mission remains unpublicized and unsaid, due to the effect which many fear it would have on the ICRC's traditional purpose of providing war relief. Exposing the ICRC's intricate and ambitious strategy, Berry shows how it was put into operation in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, the Sudan, Aghanistan, and Guatemala. The book reveals that a major non-governmental organization, while proclaiming to be non-political, has a huge political agenda.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
appendices
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-71360-0 (9780333713600)
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Content
Preface - Introduction - The Main Mission: The Origins and Development of the Red Cross - The Unspoken Mission: Undermining Civil Wars - The Unspoken Mission: Guiding the International Community - The Unspoken Mission: Lobbying the Peacekeepers - The Unspoken Mission in Action: The Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, the Sudan, and Afghanistan - The Unspoken Mission in Guatemala - The Prevention of Conflict is the First Line of Defence - Appendices