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Peter Maurer Quotes

Swiss - Activist | 1956 -

We live in an environment in which connectivity and cyberspace are transforming all workplaces, including the humanitarian workplace.

Live Environment Workplace Including

The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.

Crisis Become Discourse Sovereignty

There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.

Great Environmental Potential Social

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.

Character Commitment People Suffering

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.

Today People Conflict Action Think

Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

Future Day School Go Burden Without

What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?

Law World Start Hell Questioning

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.

Good Women Children People Impact

You treat detainees humanely because you know the other side will also treat detainees humanely.

Treat You Know Will Side Because

Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

Enough Values Human Human Values

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.

Today Time Coffee Suffering World

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

Time Purpose Born Understand Need

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