We live in an environment in which connectivity and cyberspace are transforming all workplaces, including the humanitarian workplace.

Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact from the destruction of vital services like water and electricity.

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

People living through armed conflicts need infrastructure and services which will last, and the last thing on their mind is which budget line applies.

I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.