1. With the exception of specific citations, the following section is derived principally from commentary on the ICRC’s principles and policies from David P. Forsythe, The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 157–88;
2. Jean Pictet, The Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross: Commentary (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1979);
3. H. Slim, ‘Relief Agencies and Moral Standing in War: Principles of Humanity, Neutrality, Impartiality and Solidarity’, Development in Practice 7.4 (1997), pp. 342–52.
4. Max Huber, ‘Croix-Rogue et Neutralit,’, International Review of the Red Cross 18.209 (1936), pp. 353–63.
5. See Charles O. Berry, War and the Red Cross: The Unspoken Mission (New York: St. Martins, 1997). For a more nuanced assessment of the ICRC’s relationship to the cause of peace