International Review of the Red Cross: The future of humanitarian action

 This International review of the Red Cross includes the following articles:

• Megatrends and the future of humanitarian action
•  Planning from the future: an emerging agenda
•  The future of humanitarian action: an ICRC perspective
• The legal framework of humanitarian access in armed conflict
•  What Americans think of International Humanitarian Law
• Using humanitarian aid to ‘win hearts and minds’: a costly failure?
•  The use of force to protect civilians and humanitarian action:
  the case of Lybia and beyond
• Civil–military relations in natural disasters: a case study of the 2010
  Pakistan floods
• ‘Yo lo vi’. Goya witnessing the disasters of war: an appeal to the
  sentiment of humanity
•  Opportunity knocks: why non-Western donors enter
  humanitarianism and how to make the best of it
• What future role for local organizations? A reflection on the need for
  humanitarian capacity-building
•  Humanitarian organizations involved in protection activities: a story
  of soul-searching and professionalization
•  Fit for purpose: the role of modern professionalism in evolving the
  humanitarian endeavour
• The emerging concept of humanitarian diplomacy: identification
  of a community of practice and prospects for international
  recognition
• New information technologies and their impact on the humanitarian
  sector
• Tribute to Judge Antonio Cassese (1937–2011)
• New Edition: How does Law Protect in War?
• Recent acquisitions of the Library and Public Archives, ICRC