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Youth and peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Leon Stubbings
Leon Stubbings*
Affiliation:
Former Secretary General Australian Red Cross Society
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In the beginning…

Peace was part of the vision of Henry Dunant when, having seen the human suffering and misery on the battlefield of Solferino, he was inspired to create a humanitarian organization that would aid all people affected by war. His ultimate objective was not merely to relieve the suffering caused by war but to instil in mankind a spirit of peace. He believed that if we instil humanitarian ideas in people, and inspire everyone with a horror of the spirit of vengeance, hatred and destruction, we shall counteract the terrible scourge of war and perhaps avert it completely.

The quest for peace has been an integral part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement since its inception. The Movement has many other goals but in pursuing them all it tries to spread the spirit of peace.

Type
125th Anniversary of the Movement
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 29 , Issue 268 , February 1989 , pp. 51 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1989

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References

1 XIIIth session of the Board of Governors of the League of Red Cross Societies, Paris, 1932, Resolution No. 25.

2 World Red Cross Conference on Peace (Belgrade, June 1975)— Programme of Action of the Red Cross as a factor of peace—Final edition, Geneva, 08 1978, p. 23.Google Scholar

3 Second World Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on Peace (Aaland—Stockholm, September 1984)— Report on the Conference, ICRC, League, p. 159.Google Scholar

4 Programme of Action of the Red Cross as a factor of peace, op. cit., p. 28.Google Scholar