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Cooperation between the International Committee of the Red Cross and National Societies in Bosnia-Herzegovina: broadening the Red Cross response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Pierre Krähenbühl
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The break-up of Yugoslavia and the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina represented the first major conflict on European soil since the end of the Second World War. It confronted politicians, military planners, journalists and aid workers alike with daunting challenges that often posed acute dilemmas. In many ways, the war threw into question the international community's ability to respond to the issues at hand and meet the needs encountered. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement was not spared this challenge.

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Cooperation between National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 38 , Special Issue 323: Cooperation between National Societies and the ICRC , June 1998 , pp. 249 - 262
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998

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References

1 See the provisions relevant for ICRC's activities in the former Yugoslavia: IRRC, No. 311, March-April 1996, pp. 243–245.

2 Particular emphasis is placed on our experience between July 1995 and December 1997, i.e. the final months of the war and the first two years after the signing of the peace agreement. Changes in the programmes and the concept underlying them are therefore to be seen in a context of transition from one of the most acute phases of the conflict to the immediate post-war environment.

It is worth mentioning that these developments took place prior to the adoption of the Agreement on the organization of the international activities of the components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Seville, 26 November 1997 — reprinted in IRRC, No. 322, March 1998, pp. 159–176). By early 1997, the delegations of the ICRC and the Federation were operating on the basis of a strengthened partnership in the fields of assistance and institution-building. Both components were working with National Societies in the framework of bilateral or delegated projects.

3 According to the Dayton peace agreement, Bosnia-Herzegovina comprises two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. As a result of operational decisions taken during the conflict, the ICRC had separate delegations in each of these entities until 15 January 1997. Since then there has been one delegation, based in Sarajevo.

4 Throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, ten such projects have been completed since the end of the war.