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" Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly. "
Peter Maurer
Funding
Socio-Economic
Must
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" Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies. "
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" Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts. "
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" The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new. "
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" To respond to people's needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net. "
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" Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility. "
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" The creative capacity of the private sector should be harnessed to develop new and more effective ways to deliver humanitarian solutions. "
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" Attacks on health facilities, health workers, ambulances, is now a reality that we observe on the ground - not on a monthly but on a daily or weekly scale in most of the conflicts in which we are engaged. "
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Daily
" You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children. "
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Good
Impact
" Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future. "
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School
Without
" Suffering does not change its face. "
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Suffering
Face
Does
" The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.' "
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World
End Of The Day
Day
" We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year. "
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Suffering
Commitment
Strong
" While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another character. "
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Work
Assistance
" Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice. "
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Experience
Choice
Very
" 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. "
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Violence
Blurred
" Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare. "
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Diversity
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" 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 skills. "
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Enough
Money
" 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. "
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Tomorrow
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" 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. "
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Need
More
Drive
" Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime. "
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Cruel
Torture
Scars
" Although the ICRC and the World Economic Forum have separate missions, they both are centred on collaboration across sectors and between various actors in order to improve the state of the world. "
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Collaboration
Improve
" The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse - not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors. "
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Variety
Diversity
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" We demonize our enemies at our own peril. "
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Enemies
Demonize
Peril
" I have known Sepp Blatter, FIFA and football for a long time, and there are some fundamental values which FIFA and the ICRC share. "
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Long Time
Values
Time
" The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law. "
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" While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful. "
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Moving
Consequences
More
" The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time. "
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Abuse
Since
Dawn
" 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. "
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Law
Old
" Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains. "
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Key
Law
Respect