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Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.

~Peter Maurer

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Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.

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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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If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.

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Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.

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When millions of kids are missing out on school, delivering educational services becomes an issue that concerns the humanitarian system.

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The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.

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The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare.

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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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We believe that settlement expansion policies pursued in recent decades by successive Israeli governments have facilitated the process of de-facto annexation. It has complicated the dialogue between the different communities.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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