10. Do The Principles And Practice Of Red Cross Neutrality Meet The Necessities Of Today’s Humanitarian Action?

10.1017/s1816383120000417 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-2

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

Reference Library ◽

Parallel Development ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

The Core ◽

The Past

The ICRC Library is home to unique collections retracing the parallel development of humanitarian action and law during the past 150+ years. With the core of these collections now digitized, this reference library on international humanitarian law (IHL) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a resource available to all, anytime, anywhere.

Hacking humanitarians: Defining the cyber perimeter and developing a cyber security strategy for international humanitarian organizations in digital transformation

10.1017/s1816383121000151 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 102 (913) ◽

pp. 367-387

Author(s):

Massimo Marelli

Keyword(s):

Cyber Security ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

New Technologies ◽

International Committee ◽

Digital Transformation ◽

Red Cross ◽

Digital Environment ◽

Security Strategy ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

Humanitarian Organizations

AbstractDigitalization and new technologies have an increasingly important role in today's humanitarian activities. As humanitarian organizations become more active in and reliant on new and digital technologies, they evolve from being simple bystanders to being fully fledged stakeholders in cyberspace, vulnerable to adverse cyber operations that could impact on their capacity to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict or other situations of violence.This shift makes it essential for humanitarian organizations to understand and properly map their resulting cyber perimeter. Humanitarian organizations can protect themselves and their activities by devising appropriate cyber strategies for the digital environment. Clearly defining the digital boundaries within which they carry out operations lays the groundwork for humanitarian organizations to develop a strategy to support and protect humanitarian action in the digital environment, channel available resources to where they are most needed, and understand the areas in which their operational dialogue and working modalities need to be adapted for cyberspace.The purpose of this article is to identify the unique problems facing international humanitarian organizations operating in cyberspace and to suggest ways to address them. More specifically, the article identifies the key elements that an international humanitarian organization should consider in developing a cyber security strategy. Throughout, the International Committee of the Red Cross and its specificities are used as an example to illustrate the problems identified and the possible ways to address them.

THE ROLE OF THE HUMANITARIAN ACTION INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE RED CROSS (ICRC) IN THE 2011 LIBYA REVOLUTION

Journal of Islamic World and Politics ◽

10.18196/jiwp.v5i1.6694 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 35-54

Author(s):

Fitri Adi Setyorini

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Government Organizations ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

Humanitarian Mission ◽

Medical Supplies ◽

East Region ◽

One Step ◽

The Arab Spring

This study discusses the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) role in protecting and assisting victims of the Libyan revolution in 2011. The purpose of this study is to explore more about the role of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in protecting and assisting victims of war as one step on a humanitarian mission. The author used the non-government organizations (NGOs) and humanitarian action concepts. The author's research method to analyze this study was a descriptive method through a literature review. Based on research done, the author found that the revolution in Libya in 2011 was one of the effects of the Arab Spring in the Middle East region. The author also found that the ICRC carried out its humanitarian missions by providing food, water, medical supplies, medical equipment, and clothing.

Part IV Activities of Organizations, Ch.14 Humanitarian Action

The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations ◽

10.1093/law/9780199672202.003.0014 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Weiss Thomas G

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

For Profit ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

War Zone ◽

Local Actors ◽

History Of ◽

Humanitarian Space ◽

The Cold War

This chapter begins by defining some key terms, including humanitarian action, humanitarianism, humanitarian space, and humanitarian intervention. It then examines the history of humanitarian action in wars through the lenses of three historical periods: the 19th century until World War I; the early 20th century through the end of the Cold War; and the last quarter-century. Next, it describes the entities that exert influence on the ground from outside a war zone: international NGOs, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN system, bilateral aid agencies, external military forces, for-profit firms, and the media. Operating alongside, and sometimes in opposition to, external agents in a particular war zone are local actors, which include NGOs and businesses as well as the armed belligerents. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the coordination of the various moving parts of the international humanitarian system.

Detention by armed groups: overcoming challenges to humanitarian action

10.1017/s1816383112000069 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 93 (883) ◽

pp. 759-782 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

David Tuck

Keyword(s):

Perceived Risk ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

International Committee ◽

Armed Conflicts ◽

Red Cross ◽

Armed Groups ◽

Unique Role ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

International Character

AbstractArmed conflict and deprivation of liberty are inexorably linked. Deprivation of liberty by non-state armed groups is a consequence of the predominantly non-international character of contemporary armed conflicts. Regardless of the nature of the detaining authority or the overarching legality of its detention operations, deprivation of liberty may nonetheless have serious humanitarian implications for the individuals detained. Despite a need for humanitarian action, effective engagement is hampered by certain threshold obstacles, such as the perceived risk of the group's legitimization. Since the formative work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)'s founder, Henry Dunant, the ICRC has sought to overcome these obstacles. In doing so it draws upon its experience of humanitarian action in state detention, adapting it to the exigencies of armed groups and the peculiarities of their detention practice. Although not without setbacks, the ICRC retains a unique role in this regard and strives to ameliorate the treatment and conditions of detention of persons deprived of liberty by armed groups.

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan: reasserting the neutrality of humanitarian action

10.1017/s1816383111000026 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 93 (881) ◽

pp. 173-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Fiona Terry

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

The Other ◽

Red Cross ◽

Guiding Principle ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

Cast Doubt

AbstractNeutrality as a guiding principle of humanitarian action was roundly rejected by most actors in Afghanistan's latest conflict. One party to the conflict commandeered assistance and aid organizations into a counter-insurgency campaign, and the other rejected Western aid organizations as agents of an imperialist West. The murder in 2003 of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) water engineer Ricardo Munguia, because of what he symbolized, cast doubt on whether the ICRC could be perceived as neutral in this highly polarized context. Rather than abandon a neutral stance, however, as so many aid organizations did, the ICRC persevered and, through some innovative and sometimes risky initiatives, managed to show both sides the benefits of having a neutral intermediary in conflict. Today, the ICRC continues to expand its reach to Afghans in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

Looking back over 150 years of humanitarian action: the photographic archives of the ICRC

10.1017/s1816383113000568 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 94 (888) ◽

pp. 1349-1379 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Valérie Gorin

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

International Committee ◽

Point Of View ◽

Red Cross ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

Preservation Policy ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Looking Back

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to suggest some historical milestones for a retrospective reflection on the photographic archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This collection is little used by researchers, although the 120,000 photographs which it contains have helped to forge the symbolism and identity of the institution and to document its operations in accordance with a memory preservation policy which gradually emerged in the course of the 20th century. The photographs shown in this article are divided into three main themes (the ICRC delegate, the context of action, suffering and the victims), in order to make it easier to discuss the key aspects of this tremendous visual heritage which looks at humanitarian action, its protagonists and its beneficiaries from an anthropological and ethnological point of view.

Reflections on the development of the Movement and international humanitarian law through the lens of the ICRC Library's Heritage Collection

10.1017/s1816383119000365 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 100 (907-909) ◽

pp. 143-163

Author(s):

Ismaël Raboud ◽

Matthieu Niederhauser ◽

Charlotte Mohr

Keyword(s):

Geneva Convention ◽

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

Humanitarian Action ◽

The First World War ◽

History Of ◽

War Victims ◽

The Way

AbstractThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Library was first created at the initiative of the ICRC's co-founder and president, Gustave Moynier. By the end of the nineteenth century, it had become a specialized documentation centre with comprehensive collections on the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, international humanitarian law (IHL) and relief to war victims, keeping track of the latest legal debates and technological innovations in the fields related to the ICRC's activities. The publications collected by the Library until the end of the First World War form a rich collection of almost 4,000 documents now known as the ancien fonds, the Library's Heritage Collection.Direct witness to the birth of an international humanitarian movement and of IHL, the Heritage Collection contains the era's most important publications related to the development of humanitarian action for war victims, from the first edition of Henry Dunant's groundbreaking Un souvenir de Solférino to the first mission reports of ICRC delegates and the handwritten minutes of the Diplomatic Conference that led to the adoption of the 1864 Geneva Convention. This article looks at the way this unique collection of documents retraces the history of the ICRC during its first decades of existence and documents its original preoccupations and operations, highlighting the most noteworthy items of the Collection along the way.

Dissemination

10.1017/s0020860400083728 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 30 (S1) ◽

pp. 95-97

Keyword(s):

Specific Role ◽

Red Cross ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

Humanitarian Action

Dissemination of international humanitarian law and the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is always one of the ICRC's primary objectives. Through such activities the ICRC seeks to promote respect for international humanitarian law and prevent violations of it; to increase the effectiveness and safety of humanitarian action; and to strengthen the Movement's identity and cohesion whilst making the specific role of each of its components (ICRC, League, National Societies) better known.

Humanity: Our Priority Now and Always

Ethics & International Affairs ◽

10.1111/j.1747-7093.1999.tb00323.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 23-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Cornelio Sommaruga

Keyword(s):

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

New Techniques ◽

Public And Private ◽

Humanitarian Action

Thomas Weiss oversimplifies when he identifies the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with the classicist position of nonconfrontation. The ICRC defines humanitarian action to include advocacy through public and private channels to protect individuals and communities against violations of international humanitarian law. Weiss rightly points out the difficulty of making belligerents, or “unprincipled actors,” understand the value of nonpartisan and impartial action.Still, the ICRC remains committed to finding new language for communicating the principles of humanitarian action and new techniques of negotiation. In this regard the ICRC is classicist. But this classicism places the ICRC on the side of the solidarists in defending the interests of individuals and communities in distress, and on the side of the maximalists in its advocacy of international humanitarian law.