TY - BOOK ID - 78531528 TI - The humanitarians PY - 2005 SN - 1107152984 1280449268 0511182546 0511128045 0511200188 0511300611 0511755953 0511127510 9780511128042 9780511300615 9780511127519 0511126697 9780511126697 9780511755958 9780521848282 0521848288 9781280449260 9780521612814 0521612810 0521612810 0521848288 9780521612810 9780521848288 9781107152984 9780511182549 9780511200182 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - International relief. KW - Grants-in-aid, International KW - International grants-in-aid KW - Relief, International KW - Relief (Aid) KW - Charities KW - Economic assistance KW - Public welfare KW - International Committee of the Red Cross. KW - International Committee of the Red Cross KW - ICRC KW - History. KW - ʼĀhgurāwi komité qayeḥ masqal KW - Comité international de secours aux militaires blessés KW - Comité international de la Croix-Rouge KW - CICR KW - C.I.C.R. KW - CICV KW - Comisión Internacional de la Cruz Roja KW - Comitato internazionale della Croce Rossa KW - Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja KW - Comitetul Internațional al Crucii Roșii KW - D.E.S. KW - DES KW - Diethnes Komitato tou Erythrou Staurou KW - Guddiga Caalamiga ah ee Laanqayrta Cas KW - Guddiga Caalamiga ee Laanqeyrta Cas KW - Guddiga Laanqayrta Cas ee Caalamiga KW - I.C.R.C. KW - I.K.R.K. KW - IKRK KW - International Red Cross Committee KW - Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz KW - Khana Kammakān Kāchāt Rawāng Prathēt KW - Kumītah-i Bayn al-Milalī-i Ṣalīb-i Surkh KW - Lajnah al-Dawlīyah lil-Ṣalīb al-Aḥmar KW - Mezhdunarodnyĭ komitet krasnogo kresta KW - MKKK KW - Red Cross. KW - Red Cross, International Committee of the KW - Starptautiskā Sarkanā Krusta komiteja KW - Uluslararası Kızılhaç Komitesi KW - 紅十字國際委員會 KW - کميته بين المللى صليب سرخ KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78531528 AB - 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. ER -