Abstract
The aim of this article is to carry out a preliminary analysis of issues relating to the types of violence that are directed against humanitarian medical missions. Starting from the observation that violence can cause some degree of disruption for a medical organisation such as Médecins Sans Frontières, despite its wide experience which has brought it much wisdom and generated numerous and sporadic responses to such events, the article offers a more subtle analysis of terms and of situations of violence so as to contribute to the establishment of a research project and, in a second phase, to an awareness-raising campaign focusing on these complex phenomena. Copyright © icrc 2014.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | International Review of the Red Cross |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Jun 2014 |
Keywords
- attacks
- criminality
- medical care
- medicine
- violence
- war
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