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Dissemination of the Fundamental Principles of Red Cross and International Humanitarian Law

Dissemination, as international obligation of every state signatory of Geneva conventions form 1949 and Additional Protocols from 1977, is conferred to Red Cross organization which has a permanent task to spread the knowledge on the basis of the International Humanitarian Law and Fundamental Principles of the International RC/RC Movement, with the ultimate goal to protect greater protection of the war victims and other vulnerable persons.

Also, the obligation of advocacy and promotion of the humanitarian values and rules of the International Law is defined by the Statute and other Movement documents.

The unique Strategy and annual Plans of actions for the Disseminations prepares Dissemination Centre, and ratifies Governing Board of Montenegro Red Cross.

Dissemination coordinators from the Local RC branches conduct unique plans and programmes, as well as specific programmes for the local community.

The unique approach for the dissemination is provided in a way that Dissemination Centre of Montenegro Red Cross has the exclusive right to train new disseminators, and to organize and plan trainings, but of course, by engaging disseminators from the local community, and by respecting requests and needs of the respective local RC branches.

This way of organization enables Montenegro Red Cross to provide complete coordination of dissemination activities, with much less material means.

Dissemination of the Fundamental Principles of Red Cross and IHL implies:

  • Spreading the knowledge of IHL and Fundamental Principles of Red Cross Movement, promotion, advocacy and spreading the idea of humanitarian values comprised in these documents;
  • Spreading the knowledge on the RC emblem, rules of use and protection of emblem;
  • Promotion of humanitarian values and exploring IHL, as the new form of dissemination among youth;
  • Spreading the knowledge on the content of human rights, types of human rights, to whom they refer to, who they protect and in what way.

Planned activities, and at the same time, aims of the programme are the following:

  • Establishment of organizational structure for conducting dissemination,
  • Conducting educative trainings for every target groups in order to create dissemination staff,
  • Creation of adequate educative-promotional material,
  • Organization of traditional and other activities that promote Fundamental principles of Red Cross and IHL.

 

Target groups that are present in the dissemination and IHL programme are the following:

  • Members and volunteers of RC,
  • Members of the RC bodies and staff,
  • Primary school students, secondary school students, university students,
  • Representatives of the state and local authorities,
  • Representatives of Police, Army and civil protection,
  • Media representatives,
  • Health and Education workers,
  • General public.

Montenegro Red Cross organized 6 Dissemination and IHL seminars in the previous period; 4 seminars for new disseminators, 2 refreshments, and 1 training for governing and management structure. In every local RC branch we educated around 60 volunteers who could spread the knowledge in this area, in a quality manner. We printed educative-promotional material. Local RC branches received the information on disseminators who passed the training, and who could be involved in the future RC activities.