Francois Bugnion
Biographic Data
| ID | 5792994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francois Bugnion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francois |
| FAMILY NAME | Bugnion |
| SIGNATURE | BUGNION F |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adoption of the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977
On 8 June 1977, the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts adopted two Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. This was the result of nearly ten years of intensive and delicate negotiations. Additional Protocol I protects the victims of international armed conflicts, while Additional Protocol II protects the victims of non-international armed conflict…
Henry Dunant
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Birth of an idea
The trauma of coming face to face with the horrors of a battlefield and witnessing first-hand the abandonment of the war-wounded led Henry Dunant to two ingenious concepts: the creation of permanent volunteer relief societies and the adoption of a treaty to protect wounded soldiers and all who endeavour to come to their aid. On the initiative of Gustave Moynier, a committee was established in Geneva to implement Dunant's proposals. That committee…
Between insurgents and government
The French government and an armed insurrectionary movement – the National Liberation Front (FLN) – confronted each other for over seven years in the Algerian War, which would become the archetype of wars of national liberation. It brought the new conditions of struggle in revolutionary warfare to a convulsive climax characterized by terrorist attacks, underground warfare, and repression. On the humanitarian front, the challenge of ensuring respe…
The International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Since the constituent Conference in October 1863, which gave birth to the Red Cross, 1 the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent has met on thirty occasions. The first meeting took place in Paris in 1867 and the thirtieth in Geneva in November 2007. What contribution has the Conference made to the development of international humanitarian law and humanitarian action? What are the main challenges that the Conference has had to…
The 29th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 20–22 June 2006
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The Spirit of Geneva and Its Relevance Today
The Spirit of Geneva and Its Relevance Today Get access François Bugnion François Bugnion Diplomatic Advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross Former Director for International Law and Cooperation, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0261 Published: 01 De…
The International Committee of the Red Cross and nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons raise fundamental questions which go to the very heart of international humanitarian law and of Red Cross assistance activities. Sixty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the author describes the attempts of the International Committee of the Red Cross to deal with these weapons
Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Refugees
Journal Article Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Refugees Get access François Bugnion François Bugnion Director for International Law and Cooperation within the Movement, International Committee of the Red Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 36–42, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi078 Published: 01 December 2005
La genèse de la protection juridique des biens culturels en cas de conflit armé
Countless historic monuments, works of art and places of worship have been destroyed in recent conflicts, despite the fact that cultural property, as part of the cultural heritage of all mankind, is protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954 — the fiftieth anniversary of which is being celebrated this year — and by other provisions of international humanitarian law, in p…
Conseil des Délégués 2003 et XXVIIIe Conférence Internationale de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge
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La Croix-Rouge entre Genève et Paris
Au moment de la fondation de la Croix-Rouge et de l'adoption de la première Convention de Genève pour l'amélioration du sort des militaires blessés dans les armées en campagne du 22 août 1864, la France est encore perçue comme la Puissance dominante sur le continent. Le Second Empire brille de tous ses feux et c'est à Paris, où tous les pays sont représentés, que se traite une large part des affaires internationales
La Croix-Rouge entre Genève et Paris
Guerre juste, guerre d'agression et droit international humanitaire
The attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 and the subsequent “war on terrorism” have suddenly brought international humanitarian law into the limelight and again highlighted the relationship between the causes of a conflict on one hand and the respect for rules on the conduct of hostilities and protection of victims of war on the other. The article traces the history of rules limiting violence and the interdiction of recourse to…
Hommage à Jean Pictet
Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge est en deuil car il a perdu en la personne de Jean Pictet l'un de ses plus remarquables serviteurs, qui fut aussi un maître pour des générations de collaborateurs de l'institution et, pour ceux qui ont eu la chance de travailler étroitement avec lui, un ami
Hans-Peter Gasser termine son mandat en tant que rédacteur en chef de la Revue – Hans-Peter Gasser steps down as Editor of the Review
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Droit de Genève et droit de La Haye
Present-day international humanitarian law has grown from two main sources: the Law of Geneva, i.e. a body of rules which protect victims of war, and the Law of The Hague, i.e. those provisions which affect the conduct of hostilities. The author examines the different policies which are behind these two branches of international humanitarian law and traces their history up to the 1974-1977 Diplomatic Conference which, by adopting Additional Proto…
Conseil des Délégués – Genève, 11–14 novembre 2001/Council of Delegates – Geneva, 11-14 November 2001
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Refugees, displaced persons and international humanitarian law
Journal Article Refugees, Displaced Persons and International Humanitarian Law Get access François Bugnion François Bugnion Director for International Law and Communication, International Committee of the Red Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 2, January 2001, Pages 16–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/20.2.16 Published: 01 January 2001
The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
In 1949 the Swiss government convened a diplomatic conference to update international humanitarian law in the light of the tragic experiences of the Second World War. Although the proceedings were largely dominated by the fear that the coup in Prague, the blockade of Berlin and the Chinese civil war would lead to a third world war, the conference succeeded in adopting the four Geneva Conventions that are still in force today. This was a major bre…
Le droit international humanitaire à l'épreuve des conflits de notre temps
The fall of the Berlin Wall has fundamentally changed Europe, and this has come about in a surprisingly peaceful way. However, the events of 1989–1991 have not produced a new and stable order. Conflicts have erupted in many parts of the former Soviet Union, in particular in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Tensions between the former superpowers have been replaced by a large number of local conflicts, i.e. civil wars. After analysing the characte…
December 1996
In the early hours of 17 December 1996, six delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross were assassinated in a brutal attack by gunmen at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi, near Grozny. In late summer 1996, the ICRC had decided to open a field hospital in Chechnya because the main hospitals in Grozny had been seriously damaged, thus leaving large numbers of war-wounded without proper care
ICRC action during the Second World War
Following allegations that appeared in the press last summer, calling into question the actions of some of its delegates during the Second World War, the ICRC resolved to shed full light on that period in its history. The allegations were based on a number of reports by agents of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of today's CIA, and suggested that ICRC delegates had been involved in activities that were inconsistent with …
The arrival of Bourbaki's army at Les Verrières
“ The army is ready; not a gaiter button is lacking ”, declared Marshal Leboeuf, Napoleon III's Minister of War, when the funds needed for mobilization were being voted
From the end of the Second World War to the dawn of the third millennium — The activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Cold War and its aftermath
8 May 1945: Victory Day! An exhausted Europe emerged with relief from six years of oppression and carnage
Between insurgents and government
The French government and an armed insurrectionary movement – the National Liberation Front (FLN) – confronted each other for over seven years in the Algerian War, which would become the archetype of wars of national liberation. It brought the new conditions of struggle in revolutionary warfare to a convulsive climax characterized by terrorist attacks, underground warfare, and repression. On the humanitarian front, the challenge of ensuring respe…
Guerre juste, guerre d'agression et droit international humanitaire
The attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 and the subsequent “war on terrorism” have suddenly brought international humanitarian law into the limelight and again highlighted the relationship between the causes of a conflict on one hand and the respect for rules on the conduct of hostilities and protection of victims of war on the other. The article traces the history of rules limiting violence and the interdiction of recourse to…
Droit de Genève et droit de La Haye
Present-day international humanitarian law has grown from two main sources: the Law of Geneva, i.e. a body of rules which protect victims of war, and the Law of The Hague, i.e. those provisions which affect the conduct of hostilities. The author examines the different policies which are behind these two branches of international humanitarian law and traces their history up to the 1974-1977 Diplomatic Conference which, by adopting Additional Proto…
From the end of the Second World War to the dawn of the third millennium — The activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Cold War and its aftermath
8 May 1945: Victory Day! An exhausted Europe emerged with relief from six years of oppression and carnage
Birth of an idea
The trauma of coming face to face with the horrors of a battlefield and witnessing first-hand the abandonment of the war-wounded led Henry Dunant to two ingenious concepts: the creation of permanent volunteer relief societies and the adoption of a treaty to protect wounded soldiers and all who endeavour to come to their aid. On the initiative of Gustave Moynier, a committee was established in Geneva to implement Dunant's proposals. That committee…
The International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Since the constituent Conference in October 1863, which gave birth to the Red Cross, 1 the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent has met on thirty occasions. The first meeting took place in Paris in 1867 and the thirtieth in Geneva in November 2007. What contribution has the Conference made to the development of international humanitarian law and humanitarian action? What are the main challenges that the Conference has had to…
The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
In 1949 the Swiss government convened a diplomatic conference to update international humanitarian law in the light of the tragic experiences of the Second World War. Although the proceedings were largely dominated by the fear that the coup in Prague, the blockade of Berlin and the Chinese civil war would lead to a third world war, the conference succeeded in adopting the four Geneva Conventions that are still in force today. This was a major bre…
Red Cross law
The International Committee is a Red Cross institution. It takes part in the deliberations of the International Conferences and other statutory bodies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement of which it is the founder; but it may also be subject to rules laid down by those statutory bodies
Remembering Hiroshima
The seventh largest city in Japan by population size, located on the mouth of the Ota River, whose muddy waters pour into the Inland Sea, Hiroshima had been almost spared by the bombing until the summer of 1945. At dawn on 6 August 1945, four reconnaissance planes flew over the city and disappeared again without dropping any bombs. At 7:31 the sirens signaled the end of the alert. The inhabitants left their shelters and went about their business
The composition of the International Committee of the Red Cross
“I Know of no part of jurisprudence or of the humanities to which the institution calling itself the Geneva Committee can be connected”, declared the renowned Russian jurist Fiodor Fiodorovitch de Martens, legal adviser to the Imperial Russian Government, at the Fourth International Conference of Red Cross Societies held in Karlsruhe in September 1887. No wonder he was puzzled, for although the International Committee is an international institut…
The Emblem of the Red Cross - A Brief History (II)
Soon after the First World War the ICRC proposed that the Geneva Convention be revised on the basis of experience of that conflict. It had the question included on the agenda of the Tenth and Eleventh International Conferences of the Red Cross in Geneva, in 1921 and 1923
The Emblem of the Red Cross - A Brief History (II)
Soon after the First World War the ICRC proposed that the Geneva Convention be revised on the basis of experience of that conflict. It had the question included on the agenda of the Tenth and Eleventh International Conferences of the Red Cross in Geneva, in 1921 and 1923
The Emblem of the Red Cross
The marking of ambulances and hospitals is a practice which goes back a long time, but until the middle of the nineteenth century different colours were used by different countries: Austria a white flag, France a red one, Spain and the United States yellow, to mention a few examples. The devices displayed were not generally well known, so that they were seldom respected: it frequently happened that artillery shelled ambulances, that grapeshot rid…
The red cross and red crescent emblems
In the first half of the nineteenth century in Europe, each army used a different colour to mark its medical services: Austria a white flag, France a red one, Spain yellow, others black. Sometimes, the emblems varied from one corps of troops to another. Moreover, the carts used to transport the wounded bore no particular markings to distinguish them from the other army service vehicles, and there was no means of identifying members of the medical…
The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Indochina War — From the Japanese defeat to the Geneva Agreements (1945–1954)
Institutions — like individuals — have a memory. They are rooted in it and draw strength from it to weather the vagaries of vogue and sentiment. To a large extent the historical consciousness is the source of the standards set for the present and for the future. Yet time does take its toll, first dimming the memory of past events, then shrouding them in the mists of oblivion
From the end of the Second World War to the dawn of the third millennium — The activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Cold War and its aftermath
8 May 1945: Victory Day! An exhausted Europe emerged with relief from six years of oppression and carnage
Red Cross law
The International Committee is a Red Cross institution. It takes part in the deliberations of the International Conferences and other statutory bodies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement of which it is the founder; but it may also be subject to rules laid down by those statutory bodies
Remembering Hiroshima
The seventh largest city in Japan by population size, located on the mouth of the Ota River, whose muddy waters pour into the Inland Sea, Hiroshima had been almost spared by the bombing until the summer of 1945. At dawn on 6 August 1945, four reconnaissance planes flew over the city and disappeared again without dropping any bombs. At 7:31 the sirens signaled the end of the alert. The inhabitants left their shelters and went about their business
The composition of the International Committee of the Red Cross
“I Know of no part of jurisprudence or of the humanities to which the institution calling itself the Geneva Committee can be connected”, declared the renowned Russian jurist Fiodor Fiodorovitch de Martens, legal adviser to the Imperial Russian Government, at the Fourth International Conference of Red Cross Societies held in Karlsruhe in September 1887. No wonder he was puzzled, for although the International Committee is an international institut…
The arrival of Bourbaki's army at Les Verrières
“ The army is ready; not a gaiter button is lacking ”, declared Marshal Leboeuf, Napoleon III's Minister of War, when the funds needed for mobilization were being voted
December 1996
In the early hours of 17 December 1996, six delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross were assassinated in a brutal attack by gunmen at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi, near Grozny. In late summer 1996, the ICRC had decided to open a field hospital in Chechnya because the main hospitals in Grozny had been seriously damaged, thus leaving large numbers of war-wounded without proper care
ICRC action during the Second World War
Following allegations that appeared in the press last summer, calling into question the actions of some of its delegates during the Second World War, the ICRC resolved to shed full light on that period in its history. The allegations were based on a number of reports by agents of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of today's CIA, and suggested that ICRC delegates had been involved in activities that were inconsistent with …
Le droit international humanitaire à l'épreuve des conflits de notre temps
The fall of the Berlin Wall has fundamentally changed Europe, and this has come about in a surprisingly peaceful way. However, the events of 1989–1991 have not produced a new and stable order. Conflicts have erupted in many parts of the former Soviet Union, in particular in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Tensions between the former superpowers have been replaced by a large number of local conflicts, i.e. civil wars. After analysing the characte…
The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
In 1949 the Swiss government convened a diplomatic conference to update international humanitarian law in the light of the tragic experiences of the Second World War. Although the proceedings were largely dominated by the fear that the coup in Prague, the blockade of Berlin and the Chinese civil war would lead to a third world war, the conference succeeded in adopting the four Geneva Conventions that are still in force today. This was a major bre…
Hans-Peter Gasser termine son mandat en tant que rédacteur en chef de la Revue – Hans-Peter Gasser steps down as Editor of the Review
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Droit de Genève et droit de La Haye
Present-day international humanitarian law has grown from two main sources: the Law of Geneva, i.e. a body of rules which protect victims of war, and the Law of The Hague, i.e. those provisions which affect the conduct of hostilities. The author examines the different policies which are behind these two branches of international humanitarian law and traces their history up to the 1974-1977 Diplomatic Conference which, by adopting Additional Proto…
Conseil des Délégués – Genève, 11–14 novembre 2001/Council of Delegates – Geneva, 11-14 November 2001
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Refugees, displaced persons and international humanitarian law
Journal Article Refugees, Displaced Persons and International Humanitarian Law Get access François Bugnion François Bugnion Director for International Law and Communication, International Committee of the Red Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 2, January 2001, Pages 16–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/20.2.16 Published: 01 January 2001
Guerre juste, guerre d'agression et droit international humanitaire
The attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 and the subsequent “war on terrorism” have suddenly brought international humanitarian law into the limelight and again highlighted the relationship between the causes of a conflict on one hand and the respect for rules on the conduct of hostilities and protection of victims of war on the other. The article traces the history of rules limiting violence and the interdiction of recourse to…
Hommage à Jean Pictet
Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge est en deuil car il a perdu en la personne de Jean Pictet l'un de ses plus remarquables serviteurs, qui fut aussi un maître pour des générations de collaborateurs de l'institution et, pour ceux qui ont eu la chance de travailler étroitement avec lui, un ami
La Croix-Rouge entre Genève et Paris
Au moment de la fondation de la Croix-Rouge et de l'adoption de la première Convention de Genève pour l'amélioration du sort des militaires blessés dans les armées en campagne du 22 août 1864, la France est encore perçue comme la Puissance dominante sur le continent. Le Second Empire brille de tous ses feux et c'est à Paris, où tous les pays sont représentés, que se traite une large part des affaires internationales
La Croix-Rouge entre Genève et Paris
La genèse de la protection juridique des biens culturels en cas de conflit armé
Countless historic monuments, works of art and places of worship have been destroyed in recent conflicts, despite the fact that cultural property, as part of the cultural heritage of all mankind, is protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954 — the fiftieth anniversary of which is being celebrated this year — and by other provisions of international humanitarian law, in p…
Conseil des Délégués 2003 et XXVIIIe Conférence Internationale de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge
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The International Committee of the Red Cross and nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons raise fundamental questions which go to the very heart of international humanitarian law and of Red Cross assistance activities. Sixty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the author describes the attempts of the International Committee of the Red Cross to deal with these weapons
Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Refugees
Journal Article Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Refugees Get access François Bugnion François Bugnion Director for International Law and Cooperation within the Movement, International Committee of the Red Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 36–42, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi078 Published: 01 December 2005
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