Author: Peter Maurer

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We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

- Peter Maurer

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

- Peter Maurer

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

- Peter Maurer

Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.

Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.

- Peter Maurer

Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

- Peter Maurer

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

- Peter Maurer

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