Humanitarians at war: the Red Cross in the shadow of the Holocaust
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The International Red Cross conference was held in Toronto in 1952. The event signalled the postwar consolidation of the International Committee of the Red Cross' (ICRC) status as a high-profile independent humanitarian organization based in Geneva with an all-Swiss leadership. The situation was best described by ICRC president Paul Ruegger: ‘Today the position of the ICRC, after the Geneva diplomatic conference and since September 1948 in Stockholm, is quite strengthened in terms of its Swiss composition. Financially, we are not completely without funds; compared to the holdings of 200,000 francs in 1939, the deficit of 3 million francs in 1948, we now have 20 million francs at our disposal. Despite very tough fights on all sides, we move forward’ (p. 235). The statement points to two developments that defined the ICRC's history between 1939 and the early 1950s. On the one hand, by successfully reforming the Geneva Conventions (1949), the organization was instrumental in bringing about better protection of civilians in wartime. On the other hand, because of the decisions and actions of its leadership during the Second World War and in the years after, the ICRC experienced an existential crisis that put into question the validity of its brand of humanitarianism.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it