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" Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from? "
Peter Maurer
People
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You
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" The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new. "
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Nothing
Conflict
Sad
" Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched. "
Peter Maurer
Growing
Day
Suffering
" We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions. "
Peter Maurer
Need
More
Drive
" We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms. "
Peter Maurer
Roots
Understand
Violence
" The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war. "
Peter Maurer
Work
Essence
Humanitarian
" The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems. "
Peter Maurer
Solutions
Revolution
Risks
" 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
Solutions
End
Only
" The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare. "
Peter Maurer
Partner
World
War
" Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred. "
Peter Maurer
Conflict
Violence
Blurred
" New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat robots, and laser weapons. "
Peter Maurer
Science
Tomorrow
Giving
" The issue of corruption in the humanitarian system is not an issue which is fundamentally different from dangers of corruption in other areas. One of the best ways to strengthen accountability is to engage in principled and law-based humanitarian action. "
Peter Maurer
Action
Accountability
Corruption
" If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable. "
Peter Maurer
Back
Out
Still
" I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also confronted with legitimate expectations from the people who want us to respond far more thoroughly to their basic pleas than we would have done in a much more contained form of conflict. "
Peter Maurer
People
Think
Today
" 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 difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower. "
Peter Maurer
Good
Country
Small
" The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law. "
Peter Maurer
Law
Suffering
Rules
" 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 number of warheads on high alert and be clearer about the actions they are taking to prevent accidents. "
Peter Maurer
Last
Risk
More
" Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends. "
Peter Maurer
Cannot
Action
Political
" Not only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion. "
Peter Maurer
Disability
Health
Impact
" If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast. "
Peter Maurer
Good
Solutions
Vast
" 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 today are just a flick of a switch away. In our homes, on the train, in our coffee shops, we see it, we feel it, we know about it. All of us. All of the time. Human suffering is visible, constantly. "
Peter Maurer
Time
Suffering
Coffee
" Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future. "
Peter Maurer
Go
School
Without
" 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
Only
Effort
Development
" 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
Moving
Consequences
More
" Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target. "
Peter Maurer
Target
Born
Background
" The young, the old, women, the disabled, the sick and the wounded are entitled to protection under international law. Too often, the ICRC's calls for those laws to be respected are ignored. "
Peter Maurer
Protection
Law
Old
" Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice. "
Peter Maurer
Experience
Choice
Very
" We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again. On the contrary, we witness a catalogue of atrocities every day in wars across the globe. "
Peter Maurer
Day
Happen
Will
" The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time. "
Peter Maurer
Abuse
Since
Dawn
" To respond to people's needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net. "
Peter Maurer
Safety
Temporary
People
" The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising. "
Peter Maurer
Political
Start
Think