IRRC No. 243

What The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement does and Wants to do for Peace: Fundamental Guidelines for the contribution of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to a true peace in the world

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Since its inception and by its very existence our Movement has striven to contribute to peace in the world.For over 120 years, it has sincerely attempted to limit by its action and through the provisions of humanitarian law, the horrors of war, from which it was created. In fact, what it does, in time of peace as in time of war, helps—directly or indirectly—to defuse the causes of conflicts and thereby contributes to the dynamic process that leads to true peace.

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