Solferino 21

'Solferino 21 is a brilliantly written book: it is accessible, informative, provocative, and offers helpful summaries of contemporary warfare and humanitarianism.' -- Ethics & International Affairs 'Slim's accessible and sparkling Solferino 21 interprets Henri Dunant's humanizing response to carnage as a tradition to reinvent, keeping up with the evolving realities of war and the priority of civilian protection.' -- Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School, author of Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War 'This compelling tract is an irrepressible call for justice, humanity and genuine universality, in a humanitarian rethink for the twenty-first century. Impeccable scholarship, and an electrifying, potentially transformative text.' -- Rama Mani, Co-founder, Home for Humanity 'An urgent, provocative, controversial and thoughtful meditation on the past and future of humanitarian aid. It is a call to reform and think afresh humanitarian work in the face of changing notions of what wars are and will be.' -- Bertrand Taithe, Professor of Cultural History and Director at the Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester 'Engaging, sophisticated and informed, this is an important contribution to humanitarian thought and practice on the 160th anniversary of Dunant's seminal essay on Solferino. Slim's continuing optimism is persuasive, but this is also a sober analysis of current trends.' -- Michael Newman, Emeritus Professor of Politics, London Metropolitan University, and author of Humanitarian Intervention