General Guillaume-Henri Dufour and Henry Dunant

- Henry Dunant: If the Convention was a body, Dunant was its heart. He was the man who saw the suffering firsthand and turned his horror into the book A Memory of Solferino. He stood as the moral witness, pushing the political powers of Europe to acknowledge that human suffering should not be a byproduct of politics.

- General Guillaume-Henri Dufour: If Dunant was the heart, General Dufour was the discipline. A Swiss military hero, his presence gave the Convention legitimacy in the eyes of the generals and monarchs of Europe. He acted as the pragmatic witness, translating Dunant’s idealistic vision into the structured, legalistic language that soldiers and politicians could actually follow.