Swiss - Activist | 1956 -
The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.
Peter Maurer
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We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.
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Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.
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Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.
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We demonize our enemies at our own peril.
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The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
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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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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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Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from?
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If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
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