Through Humanity to Peace: Reflections on Humanitarian Action and Peace from the ICRC’s Practice

Reflections on Humanitarian Action and Peace from the ICRC's Practice. 1 The ICRC -along with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) as a whole -undertakes its work with the ultimate objective of protecting and promoting respect for human dignity.This is the essential goal of humanitarian action; it is also the foundation of sustainable peace.While the ICRC is not a peacebuilding organization, it advocates for peace as a humanitarian actor that is intimately aware of the horrors of armed conflict.As conflicts become more numerous, prolonged and lethal, causing greater human suffering, the ICRC sees a humanitarian imperative to make a renewed call for peace and to explore its own role in the ecosystem of actors that contribute to making peace possible.The Through Humanity to Peace report brings together the ICRC's operational experience in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Yemen, as well as