Download or read book Les relations entre le Comit international de la Croix Rouge CICR et le gouvernement suisse 1938 1945 written by Isabelle Vonèche Cardia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis sa fondation en 1863, le CICR a entretenu des relations privilégiées avec la Suisse et son gouvernement, basées sur la doctrine et la pratique de la neutralité et sur la perception d'une communauté de destin entre l'institution humanitaire et la Confédération helvétique. Une telle perception, ainsi que l'adhésion à des valeurs politiques communes ressortent de manière particulièrement accentuée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, époque à laquelle le CICR et la Suisse jouent leur survie. Ceci a conduit certains historiens à soutenir que l'institution genevoise a été manipulée par le gouvernement suisse, notamment lors de son silence face aux déportations nazies. S'appuyant largement sur des archives et des entretiens avec certains personnalités de l'époque, cette thèse examine les relations entre le CICR et le gouvernement suisse sur le plan des institutions, des interactions personnelles, des processus de prise de décision et des actions humanitaires menées sur le terrain. Elle montre la complexité des rapports entre le CICR et le gouvernement suisse, les rivalités qui ont éclaté, mais aussi le caractère négocié de leurs choix concrets. Surtout, elle met en question la thèse de la manipulation gouvernementale. Confronté à la Shoah, le Comité définit son attitude en tenant compte de divers critères : la sauvegarde de la neutralité et de l’impartialité, essentielles pour son identité et ses possibilités d’action ; le maintien de relations avec les belligérants telles qu'elles puissent assurer la continuité de son travail ; les probabilités de faire une différence pratique ou symbolique ; l’image du CICR en tant qu’autorité morale. Au-delà du problème du silence du CICR face aux déportations, ces critères se combinent avec l’histoire des choix précédents du Comité, la poursuite des valeurs ultimes de l’institution et une attitude systématiquement légaliste pour donner lieu à une délicate symbiose entre le CICR et le gouvernement

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Download or read book Humanitarians at War written by Gerald Steinacher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War. The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the ICRC desperately needed to salvage its reputation in order to remain relevant in the post-war world. Indeed, the whole future of Switzerland's humanitarian flagship looked to hang in the balance at this time. Torn between defending Swiss neutrality and battling Communist critics in the early Cold War, the Red Cross leadership in Geneva emerged from the world war with a new commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of conflict. But they did so while defending former Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials and issuing travel papers to many of Hitler's former henchmen. These actions did little to silence the ICRC's critics, who unfavourably compared the 'shabby' neutrality of the Swiss with the 'good' neutrality of the Swedes, their eager rivals for leadership in international humanitarian initiatives. In spite of all this, by the end of the decade, the ICRC had emerged triumphant from its moment of existential crisis, navigating the new global order to reaffirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs against the challenge of the Swedes, and playing a formative role in rewriting the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. This uncompromising new history tells the remarkable and intriguing story of how the ICRC achieved this - successfully escaping the shadow of its ambiguous wartime record to forge a new role and a new identity in the post-1945 world.

Download or read book The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force written by Frauke Lachenmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects articles on the law of armed conflict and the use of force from the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, to facilitate easy access to content from the leading reference work in international law.

Download or read book Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide written by A. Dirk Moses and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Nigeria-Biafra War: Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide -- SECTION I Genocide and the Biafran Bid for Self-Determination -- 2 Irreconcilable Narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and Arguments About Genocide, 1966-1970 -- 3 Marketing Genocide: Biafran Propaganda Strategies During the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 -- 4 The Case Against Victor Banjo: Legal Process and the Governance of Biafra -- 5 The Biafran Secession and the Limits of Self-Determination -- SECTION II A Global Event -- 6 The UK and 'Genocide' in Biafra -- 7 France and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 -- 8 Israel, Nigeria and the Biafra Civil War, 1967-1970 -- 9 Strange Bedfellows: An Unlikely Alliance Between the Soviet Union and Nigeria During the Biafran War -- 10 West German Sympathy for Biafra, 1967-1970: Actors, Perceptions and Motives -- 11 Dealing With 'Genocide': The ICRC and the UN During the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970 -- 12 Humanitarian Encounters: Biafra, NGOs and Imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-1970 -- 13 'And Starvation Is the Grim Reaper': The American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the Genocide Question During the Nigerian Civil War, 1968-1970 -- 14 'Black America Cares': The Response of African-Americans to Civil War and 'Genocide' in Nigeria, 1967-1970 -- SECTION III Trauma and Memory -- 15 Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War -- 16 'Biafra of the Mind': MASSOB and the Mobilization of History -- 17 Memory as Social Burden: Collective Remembrance of the Biafran War and Imaginations of Socio-Political Marginalization in Contemporary Nigeria -- 18 The Asaba Massacre and the Nigerian Civil War: Reclaiming Hidden History -- 19 Imagined Nations and Imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe's Quest for a Country -- Index

Download or read book War and Semiotics written by Frank Jacob and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or reasonable. The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiotic systems and their constructions during wars in different periods of history.

Download or read book Le Comit international de la Croix Rouge face l internement des militaires fran ais en Suisse written by Nadine Fink and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Protecting Civilians in War written by Miriam Bradley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the roles, methods, and effectiveness of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in protecting civilians in internal armed conflicts.

Download or read book Switzerland and Sub Saharan Africa in the Cold War 1967 1979 written by Sabina Widmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979, Sabina Widmer analyses Swiss foreign policy in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Somalia in the late 1960s and 1970s, at the crossroads of the global East-West confrontation and decolonisation. Focusing on the independence wars in Angola and Mozambique, the Angolan War and the Ogaden War as well as regime changes that brought Soviet-allied governments to power, this book sheds new light on Switzerland’s role in the Third World during the Cold War. Based on extensive multi-archival research, it exposes the limits of neutrality in North-South relations, reveals the growing marge de manoeuvre of small states during Détente, and highlights the role of non-state actors in the making of foreign policy.

Download or read book Le Comit international de la Croix Rouge written by Michèle Mercier and published by Collection Savoir suisse. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre décrit l'action du CICR avant et après les bouleversements géostratégiques dont le 11 septembre 2001 fut l'une des dates cruciales. Les égards envers la Croix-Rouge ou le Croissant-Rouge ont disparu avec la multiplication, dans le monde, de conflits où il est difficile de définir les combattants. Que faisaient hier, sur les théâtres de guerre, les agents du CICR ? Où agissent-ils aujourd'hui ? Quelles interventions imaginer demain, sous les menaces inédites, face aux incompréhensions, dans la concurrence avivée des interventions humanitaires, sous le contrôle accru des Etats payeurs ? Michèle Mercier, forte de son expérience et de ses recherches personnelles, a fondé ce livre sur des entretiens avec une cinquantaine de dirigeants, responsables, actuels et anciens agents de terrain et observateurs extérieurs du CICR. Elle révèle la mutation en cours dans la plus célèbre organisation humanitaire, gardienne des Conventions de Genève.

Download or read book Guerres r volutions Croix Rouge written by Jacques Freymond and published by Genève : Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales. This book was released on 1976 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rapport r sum sur l activ du Comit international de la Croix Rouge 1er juillet 1947 31 d cembre 1951 written by International Committee of the Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Les conventions de Gen ve du 12 ao t 1949 La Convention de Gen ve relative a la protection des personnes civiles en temps de guerre par O M Uhler et al 1956 written by Jean S. Pictet and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Revue internationale de la Croix Rouge et Bulletin international des Soci t s de la Croix Rouge written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Comit international de la Croix Rouge et le conflit de Cor e 26 juin 1950 31 d cembre 1951 written by International Committee of the Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Comit international de la Croix Rouge et la protection des d tenus politiques written by Jacques Moreillon and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: