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Mission humanitaire ou voyage d'étude ? Le CICR et la guerre du Chaco

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: The Chaco War was the first opportunity for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the oldest of the international organizations, to launch a humanitarian action in Latin America. Between 1933 and 1934, ICRC sent two delegations in Bolivia and in Paraguay in order to visit the prisoners of war. If we are to believe the institutional literature, the ICRC's involvement for the victims of the war was successful. However, by the passing of the time, the Chaco War seems to have been evacuated from the history and from the memory of the ICRC. Based on ICRC archives material, this paper analyses the reasons of this discrepancy. Looking both on material contingencies and on psychological factors, our contribution aims at bringing new perspectives on the problematic of the European humanitarian assistance in front of non-European victims.

Source: Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos

DOI: 10.4000/nuevomundo.1723

Author: Daniel Palmieri

Language: French

Topic: Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2013762755

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