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Origin. Founded in Geneva in Feb. 1863. From its outset the ICRC saw that volunteers could act effectively on the battlefield, without risking rejection by officers and soldiers, only if they could be told apart from ordinary civilians by a distinctive emblem and were protected from fighting.
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Moorehead, Caroline, Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross. HarperCollins, London, 1998
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Turner, B. (2004). International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2005. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271333_81
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