lnternational Committee of the Red Cross——History of Organization
Since the Red Cross has figured four times in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize（1917，1944，and 1963），as well as in the award to Henri Dunant（1901），and has therefore been made the subject of various presentation speeches and Nobel lectures which give details of its inception[1]，history，and activities，the following brief summary of its origins and present organization is intended as a frame of reference for all four of these awards rather than as the typical history ordinarily included for each award to an organization.
