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Nicholas O. Berry, War and the Red Cross — The unspoken mission, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1997, 159 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Wilfried Remans*
Affiliation:
International Affairs Department, Belgian Red Cross-Flanders

Abstract

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Books and Reviews
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998

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References

1 The ICRC looks to the future: International Committee of the Red Cross, Avenir Study: Strategic content”, Geneva, 12 December 1997 Google Scholar , IRRC, No. 322, March 1998, pp. 126–136.

2 The author touches only briefly on the important role National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies play in this respect, and on the International Federation's mission and strategy to focus on the most vulnerable and strengthen the National Societies as part of civil society. See Resolution 5 of the 26th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent(Geneva, 1995), IRRC, No. 310, January-February 1996, p. 75 Google Scholar , and the International Federation's Strategic Work Plan for the Nineties (unpublished document).

3 IRRC, No. 310, January-February 1996, p. 119.

4 Supra (note 1), p. 130.1