Describe the historical background and contribution of red cross

The birth of the Red Cross

Dunant called for the creation of national relief societies to assist those wounded in war, paving the way for the future Geneva Conventions. Dunant and five of his peers then set up the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded in 1863.

classical republicanism, also known as civic humanism, is a form of republicanism  developed in the renaissance inspired by the governmental forms and writings of  classical  antiquity, especially such  classical  writers as aristotle, polybius, and cicero.