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University of Basel and ICRC to Sign Cooperation Agreement

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The University of Basel is going to work together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). On Thursday, May 8, 2014, at 11am, an extensive cooperation agreement will be signed at the Institute for European Global Studies.

Prof. Antonio Loprieno, Rector of the University of Basel, and Prof. Madeleine Herren-Oesch, director of the Institute for European Global Studies, will open the event with a welcome address. Afterwards, ICRC Vice-President Christine Beerli and Jean-Luc Blondel, Head of Division of the ICRC’s Archives and Information Management, will give a speech. The signing of the agreement will be followed by a discussion with scholars from the Institute for European Global Studies and selected students of the Master program European Studies. At the concluding Apéro Riche, the guests of the event have the opportunity to continue their discussions.

Besides the institute’s director Madeleine Herren-Oesch, several other scholars of the Institute for European Global studies will participate in the event. Among them are Georg Kreis, Professor Emeritus of History and former director of the institute, Laurent Goetschel, Professor of Political Science, Corinne Pernet, SNSF Professor, Dr. Isabella Löhr, Assistant of Prof. Herren-Oesch, MLaw Janine Dumont, Assistant in the Law Department, as well as Jeremy Presthold, Associate Professor of African and Global History at the University of California, San Diego (USA), and currently Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies.

Founded in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) consists of up to 25 Swiss citizens and is the only institution explicitly named under International Humanitarian Law as a controlling authority. It is the oldest organization of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and, besides the Holy See and the Military Order of Malta, one of the few original non-governmental subjects of Public International Law. The ICRC’s exclusively humanitarian mission is based on the principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence, and aims to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.

The event to sign the cooperation agreement between the University of Basel and the ICRC will take place on May 8, 2014, at 11am in the Salon of the Institute for European Global Studies.

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