The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The relatively unpredictable flow of funds to humanitarian organizations, and the bureaucratic strings often attached to them, can have a highly negative impact on an organization's ability to plan and execute programmes effectively. We need to be able to rely… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
There is a clear business case for building the resilience and capacity of local communities, businesses, and institutions because a peaceful, educated, and productive… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future. — Peter Maurer Copy Share
Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful. — Peter Maurer Copy Share
Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies. — Peter Maurer Copy Share
We believe that settlement expansion policies pursued in recent decades by successive Israeli governments have facilitated the process of de-facto annexation. It has complicated… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again. On the contrary, we witness a catalogue… — Peter Maurer Copy Share
Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts. — Peter Maurer Copy Share
