أثر التغير الاجتماعي في تحديد مفهوم الإغاثة الإنسانية

Abstract EN

Ever since societies have come into existence, humanitarian aid, alternatively referred to as a relief, has emerged with varied forms of content, type, and concept according to societies’ evolution, failure, strength, weakness, richness, and destitution.

throughout its long history, humanitarian aid has changed from rendering life-saving assistance to charity and almsgiving, to become a recognized right for the truly distressed people.

more so, humanitarian aid has developed to a point that it is no longer confined to a community but has now expanded to include assistance to those in need around the world.

it evolved to the point that it does not depend any longer from the goodwill of well-off people, reformers, and donors but it has become a recognized field of action for organizations and experts.

this research is divided into four key sections.

the first section addresses the concept of humanitarian relief and how it has first come into existence ; the second section investigates and explains the concept of humanitarian relief of the non-Arabs ; the third section spells out the concept of humanitarian relief of the Arabs, represented by the efforts of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the past until the present times ; the fourth section brings to focus on the most prominent international humanitarian organizations.