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1) Today is the official UK publication day of my new @OUPLaw book #preparingforwar on the making of the Geneva Conventions, the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated.
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2) On the morning of 21 April 1949, at the diplomatic conference of Geneva’s opening ceremony, the Swiss president of the meeting Max Petitpierre welcomed state representatives from across the world to the city before a crowd of excited spectators.
3) They gathered at Geneva’s historic Bâtiment Électoral to further the idea of humanizing warfare. At the time, this building hosted the ICRC’s POW Agency and its millions of fiches chronicling the lives of POWs from WWII (see image).
