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War and the Red Cross
Na, Na; Berry, Nicholas O.
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Description for War and the Red Cross
Hardback. BIC Classification: YQS. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 349.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312165178
SKU
V9780312165178
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Ref
99-15
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