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Peter Maurer
Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
Born: 1956
Conflict Day Humanitarian People Will You
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Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future. Peter Maurer
Future Day School Burden Enormous Kids Able Without Passes Go Being Each Each Day
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. Peter Maurer
Good You Women People Torture Impact Civilians Attack Indiscriminately Protect Women And Children Children Warfare Your
Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. Peter Maurer
Values Enough Enshrined Abide Countries Armed Geneva Armies Human Conventions Groups Fundamental Human Values
We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose. Peter Maurer
Time Some Born Purpose Geneva Documents Another Another Time Understand Historical Just Conventions Created Need
The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new. Peter Maurer
Sad Conflict Nothing Horrendous Fact Sad Fact New Human Nothing New
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. Peter Maurer
Health Daily Reality Monthly Scale Facilities Attacks Weekly Observe Most Conflicts Which Workers Engaged Ground Now
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. Peter Maurer
Theatre Big Become Transformation Fragmentation Increasingly City See Open Smaller Open Spaces Armed Armies Move Spaces Which Warfare Groups
Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent. Peter Maurer
Time Wealth Increasingly Cities Drivers Becoming Same Same Time Growth Violent
Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities. Peter Maurer
Youth Poverty Cities Leading Unemployment
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. Peter Maurer
Work Important Type Some More Unsafe Development Safe Comfortable Important Work Very Done Often Where While Agencies Choose Even Actor Humanitarian Profoundly
We demonize our enemies at our own peril. Peter Maurer
Enemies Own Our Peril Demonize
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. Peter Maurer
You Money Rebuild Enough Enough Money Syria Development Expect Agencies Capacity Skills Humanitarian
As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration. Peter Maurer
You Politicians Responsible Manage Migration
Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from? Peter Maurer
You People Back Send Where Fleeing Really
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