Cornelio Sommaruga

Biographic Data

ID6400708
NAMECornelio Sommaruga
GIVEN NAMESCornelio
FAMILY NAMESommaruga
SIGNATURESOMMARUGA C
AFFILIATIONSInternational Committee of the Red Cross
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR39
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX2

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…2000

    First of all I would like to thank the North Atlantic Council most warmly for inviting me to speak at such a significant moment in history. We are approaching the end of a year marked by the 50th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and indeed of NATO, as well as the eve of a new millennium. This is also a time for assessment of the Balkan crisis, an issue taken very seriously by the entire international community, including NATO, and incl…

  • Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…2000

    Je voudrais d'abord très vivement remercier le Conseil de l'Atlantique Nord de m'avoir invité à m'adresser à vous à un moment aussi capital de l'histoire. Nous parvenons au terme d'une année qui a été marquée par le 50 e anniversaire des Conventions de Genève de 1949, et bien sûr celui de l'OTAN, et nous voyons poindre l'aube du nouveau millénaire. Le moment est venu aussi de procéder à une évaluation de la crise des Balkans, un événement qui a r…

  • Même la guerre a des limites

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1999

    Au moment où ce siècle de grands cataclysmes s'achève, où la plupart de nos repères se font flous, il est nécessaire de réaffirmer la priorité de l'être humain et de sa dignité. Nous — les humanitaires —, nous le faisons quotidiennement aux côtés des victimes et des plus vulnérables, mais nous devons aussi pouvoir le faire avec les acteurs de la communauté des États

  • Le droit international humanitaire au seuil du troisième millénaire

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1999

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  • Humanity

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEEthics & International Affairs1999Cited by: 6References: 1

    Thomas Weiss oversimplifies when he identifies the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with the classicist position of nonconfrontation. The ICRC defines humanitarian action to include advocacy through public and private channels to protect individuals and communities against violations of international humanitarian law. Weiss rightly points out the difficulty of making belligerents, or “unprincipled actors,” understand the value of n…

  • Humanitarian action and peace-keeping operations

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1997

    It is an honour and a privilege for me to address this Conference devoted to a topic of great importance to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). As a humanitarian organization, whose mandate it is to provide protection and assistance for victims of armed conflicts and which is operational worldwide, the ICRC has been directly concerned with many peace-keeping missions undertaken by the United Nations

  • Appeal by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Additional Protocols of 1977

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1997

    Twenty years ago, on 11 June 1977, the plenipotentiaries of over a hundred States and several national liberation movements signed the Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts. This Conference had been convened by the government of Switzerland, the depositary State of the Geneva Conventions. After four sessions held between 1973 and 1977, themselves…

  • Editorship of the Review — Jacques Meurant retires

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1996

    At the end of 1995, the International Committee of the Red Cross bade farewell to Jacques Meurant, editor-in-chief of the International Review of the Red Cross since 1986. At the end of a career spanning more than thirty years in the service of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including ten years in charge of the Review , Mr Meurant is leaving for a well-deserved retirement

  • Strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1995

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  • World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 1995 — Joint Message of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and of the International Committee of the Red Cross

    Open AccessMario Enrique Villarroel Lander, Cornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1995

    World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 1995 — Joint Message of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and of the International Committee of the Red Cross: Dignity for All: Respect for Women - Volume 35 Issue 306

  • Thirty-fifth award of the Florence Nightingale Medal

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1995

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  • Convocation to the 26th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Geneva (Switzerland), 3–7 December 1995

    Open AccessMario Villarroel Lander, Cornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1995

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  • Recognition of the Red Cross of Equatorial Guinea

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1994

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  • Greater solidarity for a more humane approach to development

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1994Cited by: 1

    “To unite Red Cross Societies throughout the world in a concerted effort to prevent, mitigate and alleviate the suffering caused by disease and major disasters”. This was the primary aim of the League of Red Cross Societies (now the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) whose seventy-fifth anniversary we have just celebrated. The League, it will be recalled, was founded in response to the wishes of National Red Cross S…

  • The 125th anniversary of the International Review of the Red Cross

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1994

    The International Review of the Red Cross is 125 years old — an age which might well be called venerable, unless the term “honourable” is preferred, but in any case a surprising age for a publication. Periodical publications which have lasted for so long are rare indeed, and the number of such international and multilingual reviews can be counted on the fingers of one hand

  • Recognition of the Andorra Red Cross

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1994

    We have the honour of informing you that the International Committee of the Red Cross has officially recognized the Andorra Red Cross. This recognition, which took effect on 24 March 1994, brings to 162 the number of National Societies that are members of the

  • Hans Haug In cooperation with Hans-Peter Gasser, Françoise Perret and Jean-Pierre Robert-Tissot Humanity for All The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

    Open AccessCornelio Sommaruga, Mario Villarroel LanderARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1993

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  • Humanitarian action and peace-keeping operations

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1993

    The ICRC President, Mr. Cornelio Sommaruga, and his special adviser, Mr. André Pasquier, took part on 5 and 6 March 1993 in the 25th session of the Academy for Peace and International Security in Monaco, chaired by the Academy's President, Professor René-Jean Dupuy

  • Thirty-fourth award of the Florence Nightingale Medal

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1993

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  • Unity and plurality of the emblems

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1992

    The armed conflicts which are causing bloodshed in a number of regions of the world have led special emphasis to be laid on one of the fundamental problems of humanitarian action in times of war: how to ensure respect for emblems providing protection for the victims of violence and for those who come to their assistance

  • Assistance to victims of war in international humanitarian law and humanitarian practice

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1992

    To crown the feature on humanitarian assistance published in the May-June 1992 issue of the Review, we now present the text of a lecture given by ICRC President Cornelio Sommaruga in several European cities in recent months, among them Freiburg im Breisgau, Como, Oslo and Paris

  • Swiss neutrality, ICRC neutrality

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1992Cited by: 1

    As the Swiss people ponder over their European destiny and the future of Switzerland's status of permanent neutrality, some commentators have raised the question whether the ICRC will be able to maintain complete independence — whichever way Switzerland turns — in conducting its humanitarian operations based on the fundamental principles of the Red Cross

  • Unité et pluralité des emblèmes

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLERevue Internationale de la…1992Cited by: 1

    Les conflits armés qui ensanglantent plusieurs régions du monde posent avec une insistance particulière un des problèmes fondamentaux de l'action humanitaire en temps de guerre: comment assurer le respect des signes de protection derrière lesquels les victimes de la violence et ceux qui les secourent peuvent s'abriter

  • Assistance aux victimes de conflits

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLERevue Internationale de la…1992

    En point d'orgue au dossier sur l' assistance humanitaire que la Revue a présenté dès son numéro de mai-juin 1992, nous publions ci-après le texte d'une conférence que le président du CICR, M. Cornelio Sommaruga , a prononcée ces derniers mois dans plusieurs villes d'Europe, notamment à Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Côme, Oslo, Paris sur le thème «Assistance aux victimes de conflits: le défi permanent du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge»

  • Unification of the German Red Cross and of the Yemen Red Crescent Society

    Open AccessCornelio SommarugaARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…1991

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