Peter Maurer - Humanitarian Diplomacy and Principled Humanitarian Action

Peter Maurer
President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and former Swiss Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The evolving global environment in which humanitarian actors operate is posing profound challenges both in terms of complexity of major crises and their impact on affected people.
Taking in consideration this environment, the ICRC, with its track record of a 150 years of humanitarian practice, has to consider how to address these challenges while remaining faithful to its humanitarian principles, notably, Humanity, Neutrality, Impartiality and Independence.
On the occasion of this Graduate Institute Lecture, the ICRC will inaugurate a series of conversations across the globe on the contemporary challenges to principles guiding humanitarian action, leading up to the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva in December 2015.

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President Peter Maurer is a living Icon, I'm happy I worked with him for years.

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Best regards from Bolivia, in my opinion principles are not rule by political matters or economy development; in fact principles are the only solid ground where any type of law can become pragmatic. Some people in the audience seems to confuse law framework with law effectiveness.

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