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Jean Henri Dunant bol švajčiarsky spisovateľ, spoluzakladateľ Medzinárodného Červeného kríža, iniciátor Ženevskej konvencie a nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za mier z roku 1901.

Narodil sa v rodine významného ženevského obchodníka. Jeho rodina bola kalvínskeho vyznania a podporovala starostlivosť o sociálne slabých. 25. júna 1859 bol svedkom krvavej bitky pri Solferine a na základe svojich dojmov napísal v roku 1862 knihu Spomienky na Solferino. Navrhol založenie medzinárodnej organizácie na pomoc raneným vojakom a uzavretie medzinárodnej dohody o ich ochrane.

17. februára 1863 v Ženeve založil Stály medzinárodný výbor pre pomoc raneným, tzv. „výbor piatich“, ktorý spoločne s ním tvorili Guillaume Henri Divour, dr. Louis Appia, dr. Theodore Maunior a Gustave Moynier.

V dňoch 26. až 29. októbra 1863 sa v Ženeve konala konferencia, ktorej sa zúčastnili zástupcovia šestnástich európskych krajín. Na konferencii bol založený Medzinárodný výbor Červeného Kríža, čo je považované za počiatok celosvetového hnutia Červeného kríža. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. máj 1828 – 30. október 1910
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“By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!”

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Henry Dunant kniha A Memory of Solferino

Zdroj: A Memory of Solferino (1862), p. 11

“I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings.”

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Henry Dunant kniha A Memory of Solferino

Zdroj: A Memory of Solferino (1862), p. 16; As quoted in The Independent, Friday, 22 February 2002 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/change-obsolete-rules-of-warfare-says-bush-envoy-661637.html

“Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?”

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Henry Dunant kniha A Memory of Solferino

Zdroj: A Memory of Solferino (1862), p. 66

“In one of the Cremona hospitals, an Italian doctor had said: "We keep the good things for our friends of the Allied Army, and give our enemies the bare necessities. If they die, so much the worse!" and he added, to excuse these barbarous words, that he had heard from some Italian soldiers who had returned from Verona and Mantua, that the Austrians allowed the wounded of the Franco-Sardinian army to die uncared for. A noble lady of Cremona, Countess…, who had heard the doctor's words and had been devoting herself to the hospitals with the utmost zeal, made haste to show her disapproval by declaring that she gave exactly the same attention to the Austrians as to the Allies, and made no difference between friends and enemies. "For, she said, "Our Lord Jesus Christ made no such distinctions between men in well doing."”

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Henry Dunant kniha A Memory of Solferino

Zdroj: A Memory of Solferino (1862), p. 97