![]() ![]() Wars have moved into the lives, cities and homes of ordinary people in a more vicious way than ever before. Today's armed conflicts look quite different: city centers and residential areas have become the battlefields of our time. Cities could be besieged or sacked but fighting rarely took place on the streets. We know that many of the world's conflict-affected cities - from Aleppo to Donetsk, from Gaza to Mogadishu, from Aden to Tripoli – are struggling to survive.įor centuries, wars were predominantly fought across vast battlefields, pitting thousands of men, large army corps and heavy weaponry against each other in open fields. ![]() This keynote speech was given by ICRC President Peter Maurer as part of the ICRC's Research and Debate cycle on "War in Cities", 4 April 2017 at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The destructive force of war in cities, the suffering it causes and the impact on people's lives and livelihoods – is a major concern of the ICRC in many countries in which we work. ![]()
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