Wars Humanising Wars

... humanitarian law dates back to mid-19th century, with the famous 1864 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field as its first milestone, with only 10 provisions (compared to today’s hundreds of articles in Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols). Henry Dunant, a Swiss entrepreneur, humanitarian and a witness of the outrageous 1859 Battle of Solferino [5] , is considered to be the initiator for both the Convention and what became the International ...