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War and the Red Cross

The Unspoken Mission

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  1. Nicholas O. Berry
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Main Mission: The Origins and Development of the Red Cross

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 7-20

  4. The Unspoken Mission: Undermining Civil Wars

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 21-34

  5. Guiding the International Community

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 35-52

  6. Lobbying the Peacekeepers

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 53-66

  7. Operations in the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, and Afghanistan

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 67-88

  8. Guatemala

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 89-113

  9. A New Contract of Humanity

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 115-127

  10. Epilogue: Chechnya and the Hazards of the Unspoken Mission

    • Nicholas O. Berry
    Pages 129-140

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 141-159
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: War and the Red Cross

  • Book Subtitle: The Unspoken Mission

  • Authors: Nicholas O. Berry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11472-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-16517-8Published: 15 May 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-61543-8Published: 15 May 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-11472-3Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 159

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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