Geneva Conference

food, water and other supplies to help the wounded and sick soldiers. This gave Dunant the idea of having trained non-combat volunteers to give aid to wounded from both sides. This then sparked a movement in which the Public Welfare Association in Geneva, for a five-man committee that Dunant and Gustave Moynier, the president of the association and the committee, were active participants. However, Dunant’s financial problems had caught up to him whenever he had joined the committee he…

Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28th, 1712, to Isaac Rousseau and Suzanne Bernard in Geneva, Switzerland. He grew up mainly with his father, as his only brother had run away while he was still a child, and his mother passed away days after his birth. From an early age his father educated him with ancient Greek and Roman literature. After years passed, Isaac had an argument with a French captain and had to flee Geneva permanently at the risk of imprisonment. At that point Rousseau went to…

Geneva Convention Iraq Reevaluating the Geneva Convention The Geneva Convention originated in the year 1864, designing the main principals of the committee, and only 16 states were represented. That was only the first successful conference as the quickly gained reorganization. They hosted many well-known conferences like the convention in 1907, which talked about adapting the principles of the convention on the wounded and sick, and the convention of 1929 that discussed the rights of prisoners…

Protocol III is an amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions relating to the adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem which was enacted in 2005. Under this new protocol, the protective sign of the Red Crystal can be displayed by medical and religious personnel during times of conflict and war. This means that it can be used in the place of the traditional Red Cross, or Red Crescent symbols. Persons who choose to display this symbol are performing humanitarian duties and therefore must be…

The bombing of Dresden, Germany occurred during the Second World War between the 13th and 15th of February, 1949. The attack was done by Britain and the United States through the use of an aerial bombing. Within the four raids that the allies carried out, 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city by heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force. Dresden, Germany was the country’s seventh-largest city and the largest of the…

The 1599 Geneva Bible was printed in London by Christopher Barker and deputies. It was not the first nor definitive edition, with 140 versions produced between 1560 and 1644. This attests to the text’s popularity amidst a fraught political and religious situation in the early modern period. Its publication has direct ties to Protestantism, particularly due to its creation by protestant Marian exiles. The text was published in England only following Archbishop Parker’s 1575 death, and then was…

Though the use of chemical weapons was ostensibly banned in the international community by the Geneva Protocol in 1925, the research and development of biological and chemical weapons was permissible until the Protocols were amended in 1975. However, a lack of enforceability by any international governing body allowed a nation like South Africa to secretly create its own such program, one that operated unchecked and actively employed its toxins and agents throughout the 1980s. With apartheid as…

For project 2, the plan was to attend a seminar of some sort regarding estate planning. Chris Hogan, one of Dave Ramsey’s personalities, was here towards the end of March but his speaking arrangement wasn’t centered solely around estate planning and instead, was more of a “smart money” event about getting out of debt etc. After doing some research, I found several different seminars that will be taking place locally next month around the Salt Lake Valley, but since the semester will be over by…

terrorist group like ISIS do not recognize international law and or the Geneva Conventions. These two evil regimes do not have any allies, it is them against the world. The use of military drones would be completely justifiable and should be encouraged against these enemies of the free world. Now in a different case where if there are two major countries or two major alliances at war with each other who both recognize the Geneva Conventions and international law then I think that some kind of…

for because the cost of being second place in the arms race is too great to contemplate. And so, the ultimate statement for this paper is not about what we wish would happen, but what should realistically be done about this system. Ultimately the Geneva Conventions and the USMCOJ both have guidelines that outline the use of any weapon…