on 9 february 1863 in geneva, henry dunant founded the "committee of the five" (together with four other leading figures from well-known geneva families) as an investigatory commission of the geneva society for public welfare. their aim was to examine the feasibility of dunant's ideas and to organize an international conference about their possible implementation. the members of this committee, aside from dunant himself, were gustave moynier, lawyer and chairman of the geneva society for public welfare; physician louis appia, who had significant experience working as a field surgeon; appia's friend and colleague théodore maunoir, from the geneva hygiene and health commission; and guillaume-henri dufour, a swiss army general of great renown. eight days later, the five men decided to rename the committee to the "international committee for relief to the wounded". in october (26–29) 1863, the international conference organized by the committee was held in geneva to develop possible measures to improve medical services on the battle field. the conference was attended by 36 individuals: eighteen official delegates from national governments, six delegates from other non-governmental organizations, seven non-official foreign delegates, and the five members of the international committee. the states and kingdoms represented by official delegates were grand duchy of baden, kingdom of bavaria, second french empire, united kingdom of great britain and ireland, kingdom of hanover, grand duchy of hesse, kingdom of italy, kingdom of the netherlands, austrian empire, kingdom of prussia, russian empire, kingdom of saxony, united kingdoms of sweden and norway, and spanish empire. among the proposals written in the final resolutions of the conference, adopted on 29 october 1863, were: