Murilo Jambeiro de Oliveira
Brazil, November 3, 2025.
I admire Henry Dunant’s efforts greatly, and I always say that they are never finished. Fundamentally, one of my great reflections today is that when Dunant thought there should be an International Humanitarian Law that spares lives not directly involved in the conflict, in my particular view, we were still facing a central point about what we understood by war—not exactly its motivation, which seems never to change, but the damage to property was, and should be, if I am pragmatic about this, much greater than the damage to life. But Dunant’s legacy is even greater for me; it was and is necessary that the damage to life be controlled, and this is a central point. The concept of war reinvents itself, the development of medicine is immense, of science in general, and it becomes even more important today that the indiscriminate damage to life, which becomes absurdly greater, be controlled. This in itself is another central aspect to consider in their never-ending effort, and more than that, the care demanded must be much more focused on all professionals in science, health, and the media, even more so today, defining, for example, the even greater use of sanitary efforts, biomedical and bioethical limits, so that there is internationally consensual control over uncontrollable harm to the lives of individuals who are not directly involved in the conflict, who have the banner of neutrality, and more than that, avoid, within today’s biomedical and bioethical parameters, a point of no return for all humanity.
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