Humanitarianism: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Relief activities to aid and assist humanity; philanthropic philosophy of active humanism}}

'''Humanitarianism''' is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby [[human]]s practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for [[Morality|moral]], [[Altruism|altruistic]], and [[emotion]]al reasons. One aspect involves voluntary emergency aid overlapping with [[human rights]] advocacy, actions taken by governments, [[development assistance]], and domestic [[philanthropy]]. Other critical issues include correlation with religious beliefs, motivation of aid between altruism and [[social control]], market affinity, [[imperialism]] and [[Neocolonialism|neo-colonialism]], [[Gender role|gender]] and [[Social class|class]] relations, and [[Aid agency|humanitarian agencies]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Götz|first1=Norbert|title=Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief|last2=Brewis|first2=Georgina|last3=Werther|first3=Steffen|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2020|location=Cambridge|doi=10.1017/9781108655903|isbn=9781108655903 |doi-access=free}} p. 3</ref> A practitioner is known as a '''humanitarian'''.