International Review of the Red Cross

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The International Review of the Red Cross is a quarterly journal published by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in conjunction with Cambridge University Press .

Objectives of the journal

It is intended to be a forum for debates on international humanitarian law , humanitarian actions and humanitarian policy during armed conflicts and other violent situations. As a special journal for international humanitarian law, it promotes the dissemination of knowledge, critical analysis and the development of international law. The analysis of cases and characteristics of conflicts should give an insight into the humanitarian problems of these conflicts. It is aimed at governments, international government and non-governmental organizations , universities and all institutions and persons interested in the humanitarian topics of the journal. In addition, it informs the readership about legal and political questions in connection with the activities of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the ICRC.

This publication, intended as an organ of the association, served the Red Cross movement as a mouthpiece in the early years and until 2005 and was the official organ of the ICRC. Since the publication was co-edited by Cambridge University Press, it can no longer be designated as such.

All editions of the review from 1869 onwards are available online on the ICRC website.

Individual articles are still available today in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish through the ICRC website.

history

The five members of the ICRC (1863)

Before issuing the review, the Committee reported from Geneva to the National Aid Societies through information and circulars only as needed . This information and circulars were summarized in one volume and published in 1871.

According to his own statements, the French delegate, Colonel Huber-Saladin, had the idea of ​​a periodical when he was working on a compilation of national publications by the aid associations. In 1869 he reported: "At the Paris conference entrusted with the reports on the publication of the work of the associations and the creation of new periodical organs, I naturally came up with the proposal to establish an international journal in Geneva. The Geneva Comité has my suggestion in Considered and made them, with the necessary extensions, the subject of one of the articles of the circular of September 21, 1867, which is repeated in the motions intended for this decision. "

Gustave Moynier, President of the ICRC and first editor-in-chief of the Review

The publication of a periodical publication by the ICRC under the presidency of Gustave Moynier follows a resolution of the II International Red Cross Conference from 1869 in Berlin. She resolved: "The conference considers it essential that an organ should be created which puts the Central Comités of the various countries in contact with one another, and communicates to them those official or other facts, the knowledge of which is of importance to them. The publication of this Organs is entrusted to the international committee without its members being allowed to be burdened with any tasks. The bulletins to be published will appear periodically at the time intervals to be determined by the international committee. " The question of cost was not discussed further; Negotiations on this should take place between the national aid societies and the committee in Geneva.
In June 1869 a circular was issued to the National Societies in which the Geneva Committee provided information about this new publication.
The 60-page first edition appeared in Geneva in October 1869; later editions appeared quarterly, from 1919 monthly.
Gustave Moynier reported to the Fifth International Red Cross Conference (Rome, 1892) about the working methods of the editorial team, the financing and the effort involved in producing the new editions. Moynier personally edited all articles until his death in 1910!

Previous editions

From 1869 to 1885 the journal appeared under the title Bulletin international Sociétés de secours aux militaires blessés (years 1-16), followed from 1886 to 1918 as Bulletin international des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (years 17-49). In 1919, until 1955 (years 1–37, issue 6), the journal was continued under the French name Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge (1955–1998). From issue 7 of the 37th year, the bilingual title Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge - International Review of the Red Cross was chosen (years 81–86, 1999–2004). Since 2005 (87th year) the journal is called International Review of the Red Cross . It has been published in collaboration with Cambridge University Press since 2006.

Speech output

The initially only French-language editions were provided with further language editions in excerpts. So from 1948 to 1961 so-called supplements were published in English, from 1961 as a complete edition. In 1949 a Spanish edition followed in the form of a suplemento , since 1976 as a complete edition. From 1988 to 1998 there was an Arabic edition and from 1994 to 1998 a Russian edition.

German-language excerpts appeared from 1950 to 1974 as Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge: Supplement and from 1975 to 1996 under the title Excerpts from the Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge: Bimonthly publication of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the service of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement with an edition of 600 copies. Unfortunately, there is no complete list of the contents of the German-language extracts.

Editors-in-chief

  • Gustave Moynier (1869–1871)
  • Auguste Bost (1871–1872)
  • Louis-Arnold Nicolet (1872–1875)
  • Louis Théodore Wuarin (1875)
  • Philippe Plan (1875–1885)
  • Albert Henri Gampert (1885-1893)
  • Paul des Gouttes (1893-1918)
  • Etienne Clouzot (1919–1942)
  • Henri Reverdin (1926–1945)
  • Louis Demolis (1943-1954)
  • Jean-Georges Lossier (1955–1976)
  • Michel Testuz (1977–1986)
  • Jacques Meurant (1986-1995)
  • Hans-Peter Gasser (1996-2001)
  • Toni Pfanner (2002-2010)
  • Vincent Bernard (2011-present)

literature

  • International Review of the Red Cross, No. 907/908/909, October 2019 (150 years of review)
  • International Review of the Red Cross, No. 103, October 1969 (100 Years Review)
  • International Review of the Red Cross, No. 303, November – December 1994 (125 years of review)
  • Excerpts from the Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, No. 3, May – June 1996 (last German-language edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelio Sommaruga : The Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge is 125 years old. In: Excerpts from the Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, Volume XLI, No. 6, November-December 1994, page 231
  2. ↑ Extracts from the Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, Volume XLVII, No. 3, May-June 1996, page 245
  3. ↑ International Review of the Red Cross (online editions from 1869)
  4. ↑ International Review of the Red Cross
  5. ^ Actes du Comité international de Secours aux Militaires blessés. Geneva 1871
  6. ^ Actes du Comité international de Secours aux Militaires blessés. Geneva 1871, page 79 ff.
  7. ↑ Negotiations of the international conference of representatives of the governments that joined the Geneva Convention and the associations and cooperatives for the care of wounded and sick warriors in the field held in Berlin from April 22nd to 27th, 1869. Berlin 1869, page 224.
  8. ↑ Negotiations of the international conference of representatives of the governments that joined the Geneva Convention and the associations and cooperatives for the care of wounded and sick warriors in the field held in Berlin from April 22nd to 27th, 1869. Berlin 1869, page 255.
  9. ↑ Negotiations of the international conference of representatives of the governments that joined the Geneva Convention and the associations and cooperatives for the care of wounded and sick warriors in the field, held in Berlin from April 22nd to 27th, 1869. Berlin 1869, page 227.
  10. ↑ Seizième circulaire aux Comités centraux, June 15, 1869
  11. ↑ Bulletin International des Sociétés de Secours aux militaires blessés, No. 1, October 1869
  12. ^ Report printed in: International Review of the Red Cross, No. 103, October 1969, pp. 530 ff.
  13. ↑ Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge et Bulletin Internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (Supplement)
  14. ↑ Extracts from the Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, Volume XLVII, No. 3, May-June 1996, page 140