Another Quote by Peter Maurer

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

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

I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins…

— Kofi Annan

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

— Seth Godin

The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children…

— Kenneth Bacon

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

— Peter Maurer

With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which…

— Bernice King

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

— Ron Paul

I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable…

— Mandy Patinkin

“At first glance, one might assume that a peacekeeping soldier from Pakistan, a diplomat from the United States, and a human rights advocate from…

— Severine Autesserre

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

— Lester B. Pearson