A name says a lot about the organization that bears it.

If the word “doctors” simply qualifies the technical content of the activities carried out by the Association, “peace” is undoubtedly a heavy word: peace is at the top of the aspirations, needs and necessities of humanity, and not only.

It is in peace that serenity, well-being, the development of a people and of an individual, of all and of each, are founded and reside.

But peace is never taken for granted, it is, rather, a laborious conquest. It is the result of a struggle, before against external adversaries, against what is negative and destructive in each of us, against selfish impulses, against prevaricating temptations, against convenient lies and against all that diabolical pantheon that is unleashed in us, among a thousand other harmful causes, by greed, narrow-mindedness and thirst for power.

Peace is not a gift: it is, in fact, a difficult conquest. Fortunately, there is an instrument that helps us to achieve this objective, and this instrument is called justice. Without justice there can be no lasting peace between men, between peoples, between nations. The existence or absence of justice therefore also possesses a powerful predictive power: a simple verification of the justice inherent in our daily actions, in the articles of a judicial code, in the clauses of an international treaty, allow us to predict the future of an interpersonal relationship, of the civil coexistence of a people, as well as of an agreement of non-belligerence between nations.

It is no coincidence that the motto of Doctors for Peace is: “From rights to health”. It is a motto that refers to the concept of justice and applies it to the area in which the organisation is mainly active: the health sector.