Community Quote by Kofi Annan

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

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

— Peter Maurer

We must remain committed to rebuilding communities ravaged by genocide. Survivors deserve a safe and secure pathway home or safe passage elsewhere.

— Nadia Murad

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance…

— Peter Maurer

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only…

— Peter Maurer

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

— Ron Paul

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.

— Peter Maurer

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

— Philip Gourevitch

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which…

— William Hague

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but…

— H. L. Mencken

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

— George W. Bush