His response came in his formation of the The Committee of Five in Geneva in 1863, bringing together four other like-minded humanitarians- Louis Appia, Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Théodore Maunoir, and Gustave Moynier.8 They soon became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The Committee agreed on an emblem, a red cross on a white background, to grant a new legal status to those who bore it– “neutrality.”9 Dunant wrote to the sovereigns of Europe to call forth representatives of their governments who would hear his ideas at a conference in Geneva in October of 1863– in this conference, the Fundamental Charter of the Red Cross was born.10
