You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again. On the contrary, we witness… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
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 Image
As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
People living through armed conflicts need infrastructure and services which will last, and the last thing on their mind is which budget… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Every year, we ask our donors to dig deeper. And every year, they gladly, generously comply. It is now up to us… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
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 Image
