00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002769 10558/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10559/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221110031407 10559/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10558/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520002769 221110################|##########|#eng## 978-0-415-34151 eng 361.7'7 361.7'7 FOR i Forsythe, David P. International Committee of the Red Cross : a Neutral Humanitarian Actor / David P. Forsythe and Barbara Ann J.Rieffer-Flanagan London : Routledge, 2007 xvi, 122 p. ; 22 cm Indeks : p. 119 - 122 p.116 - 118 This book explains the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) history and structure, as well examining contemporary field experience and broad diplomatic initiatives related to its principal tasks. Such tasks include: - ensuring that detention conditions are humane for those imprisoned by reason of political conflict or war ; - providing material and moral relief in conflict ; - promoting development of the humanitarian part of the laws of war ; - improving the unity and effectiveness of the Red Cross movement. ---Written by two formidable experts in the field, this book is an accessible introduction to a notoriously secretive organization. These features make it ideal reading for all students of international relations, international organization, international law and global governance. International Committee of the Red Cross Humanitarian assistance Barbara Ann J.Rieffer-Flanagan 10558/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10559/MKRI-P/XI-2008