The Role of UAE Foreign Aid to Developing Countries during Conflicting Situations from the Perspective of International Diplomacy

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the relationship between foreign aid provided by the United Arab Emirates and the events of the conflict in the State of Yemen. The study relied on several approaches, including quantitative, qualitative and deductive approaches, to form a complete picture of the subject of the study. The study reached a set of results, the most important of which are :The UAE government is the largest donor of foreign aid to Yemen. The State of Yemen also receives aid from other Emirati agencies, the most important of which are the Emirates Red Crescent, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, and the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation for Humanitarian Works, during the period (2016-2018). The study also found that there is no significant correlation between the foreign aid provided by the United Arab Emirates and the events of the conflict in the State of Yemen. This is in addition to that there is no significant correlation between foreign aid provided by the United Arab Emirates and the number of deaths resulting from the conflict in Yemen. Moreover, there is no significant correlation between the foreign aid provided by the United Arab Emirates and the events targeting Yemeni civilians inside the State of Yemen. There is also no significant correlation between foreign aid provided by the United Arab Emirates and the number of deaths resulting from incidents targeting Yemeni civilians inside the state of Yemen. Additionally, there is no significant correlation between the foreign aid provided by the United Arab Emirates and the events of the demonstrations inside the State of Yemen. The most important recommendations of the study include the necessity of working to increase the foreign aid and incentives provided to Yemen, not only from the UAE, but from other Arab countries, to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people, and attempting to link the increase in foreign aid with the efforts of the internal authorities in Yemen to reduce the events of the internal conflict, so that the aid increases whenever violence and conflict decreases. This is in addition to the necessity of concerted Arab efforts to solve Yemen's crisis at the political level, and work to implement an urgent development program. The financial and in-kind aid provided by the UAE and other countries is employed in the implementation of this program.