Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century

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Author(s)
Slim, Hugo
Publication language
English
Pages
328pp
Date published
01 Apr 2022
Publisher
Hurst & Co,
Type
Books
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, National & regional actors

Warfare is at a tipping point today as it passes from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerized warfare and a renewed risk of big war between global powers. Humanitarian response is also developing fast as big aid demands more and more money and tries to digitalize and
prepare for new needs in long wars and escalating climate crisis.

This book starts with the founding moment of modern of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement at the Battle of Solferino in 1859 and tracks the big changes in war and humanitarian response in our own times. Organized in three parts, it assesses twenty first century experience of warfare, civilians
and humanitarians and looks at where they are heading in the next ten years. It examines the nature of warfare in the century so far and how it is now being transformed by digitalization. It explains how civilians suffer and survive in wars today and how digital civilians will be central in wars
to come. Finally, it looks at today's big humanitarian agencies and how their world is changing too.