Disaster Quote by Peter Maurer

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

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

— Peter Maurer

Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact…

— Peter Maurer

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high…

— Peter Maurer

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

— Peter Maurer

'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family…

— David Farr

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than…

— Gore Vidal

If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of…

— Sharan Burrow

As populations continue to increase, and the climate continues to deteriorate, and as people flock in ever increasing numbers to large, underdeveloped cities, the…

— Antonio Guterres

Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political…

— Ilia Delio

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences…

— George Washington