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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

International relief. --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International grants-in-aid --- Relief, International --- Relief (Aid) --- Charities --- Economic assistance --- Public welfare --- International Committee of the Red Cross. --- International Committee of the Red Cross --- ICRC --- History. --- ʼĀhgurāwi komité qayeḥ masqal --- Comité international de secours aux militaires blessés --- Comité international de la Croix-Rouge --- CICR --- C.I.C.R. --- CICV --- Comisión Internacional de la Cruz Roja --- Comitato internazionale della Croce Rossa --- Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja --- Comitetul Internațional al Crucii Roșii --- D.E.S. --- DES --- Diethnes Komitato tou Erythrou Staurou --- Guddiga Caalamiga ah ee Laanqayrta Cas --- Guddiga Caalamiga ee Laanqeyrta Cas --- Guddiga Laanqayrta Cas ee Caalamiga --- I.C.R.C. --- I.K.R.K. --- IKRK --- International Red Cross Committee --- Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz --- Khana Kammakān Kāchāt Rawāng Prathēt --- Kumītah-i Bayn al-Milalī-i Ṣalīb-i Surkh --- Lajnah al-Dawlīyah lil-Ṣalīb al-Aḥmar --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ komitet krasnogo kresta --- MKKK --- Red Cross. --- Red Cross, International Committee of the --- Starptautiskā Sarkanā Krusta komiteja --- Uluslararası Kızılhaç Komitesi --- 紅十字國際委員會 --- کميته بين المللى صليب سرخ --- Social Sciences --- Political Science