War and the Red Cross: The Unspoken Mission

by Nicholas O. Berry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349615439
• ISBN13: 9781349615438
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"