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Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it's not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and international organisations must help strengthen communities and overcome the trauma of violence. Peter Maurer
Overcome Prolong Must Responsibly Economic Economic Activity Also Repair Create Organisations Communities Help Companies International Trauma Activity Societies Strengthen Violence
Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great. Peter Maurer
Great Complex More Longer Getting Wars Humanitarian Need
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
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If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast. Peter Maurer
Good Scale Solutions Potential Vast Social Capital Humanitarian
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
Best Corruption Accountability Action Other Ways Dangers System Area Principled Issue Different Which Engage Humanitarian Fundamentally Strengthen
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.' Peter Maurer
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We live in an environment in which connectivity and cyberspace are transforming all workplaces, including the humanitarian workplace. Peter Maurer
Live Environment Which Transforming Cyberspace Workplace Including Humanitarian
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
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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
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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
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. Peter Zumthor
Beautiful You Heart Matter Fire Feeling Research Design Earth Intimate Distorted Inside About Feel Like Concentration Go Intense Intensive Want Place Warm Really Your Deep Actually Designing
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use. Peter Zumthor
Life Good Age Building Think Must Small Absorb Taking Traces Edges Polished Am Materials Dull Human Capable Convinced Human Life Use Richness Grown Specific
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. Peter Zumthor
Life Art Me Son Wonderful Interior School Father First Design Running Tried Running Away Only Take Had He Over Industrial His Years Art School Escape Shop Going Being Eldest Then Profession Professional Professional Life Away
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around. Peter Zumthor
You Building Energy Skin Cold Other Way Solid Steal Hot Glass Feel Feels Veneer House Around Concrete Timber Effect Than Same Heat Wood Certain Body Your Your Body Certain Way Cooler
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality. Peter Zumthor
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