International Review of the Red Cross focusses on 'Humanitarian Actors'

The latest edition of the Review is themed 'Humanitarian Actors':

'Multiple humanitarian actors with different objectives, principles and modi operandi intervene in situations of armed conflict and internal violence in order to alleviate the plight of the victims: governmental and non-governmental organisations, international organisations, National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and private companies, among others. The diversity of actors and approaches can help to alleviate suffering if they manage to act in a complementary fashion, on the basis of their respective operational abilities. This edition explores the distinctive characteristics of the diverse actors and the need to build and nurture an effective partnership among them.'

Articles include:

• Non-governmental organizations: an indispensable player of humanitarian aid (Philippe Ryfman);
  
• Dunant’s pyramid: thoughts on the ‘‘humanitarian space’’ (Daniel Thürer);
  
• Beyond the Red Cross: the protection of independent humanitarian organizations and their staff in international humanitarian law (Kate Mackintosh);
  
• The 29th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 20–22 June 2006: challenges and outcome (François Bugnion);
  
• Commentary on the Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III)

More information and downloadable articles available from the ICRC website; hardcopies available from the BRC library.