Citation

Sa‘Da CA, Duroch F, Taithe B. Int. Rev. Red Cross (1999) 2013; 95(890): 309-330.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, International Committee of the Red Cross, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S1816383114000186

PMID

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to carry out a preliminary analysis of issues relating to the types of violence that are directed against humanitarian medical missions. Starting from the observation that violence can cause some degree of disruption for a medical organisation such as Médecins Sans Frontières, despite its wide experience which has brought it much wisdom and generated numerous and sporadic responses to such events, the article offers a more subtle analysis of terms and of situations of violence so as to contribute to the establishment of a research project and, in a second phase, to an awareness-raising campaign focusing on these complex phenomena.

Language: en

Keywords

attacks; criminality; medical care; medicine; violence; war