strategy
Developing international understanding
Synonyms:
Building international understandingFostering international understanding
Offering adequate international understanding
Providing sufficient international understanding
Achieving international understanding
Promoting international understanding
Building bridges of understanding
Description:
Two principal meanings exist, neither of which implies either promotion of world government, nor undermining of national loyalties:< 1. Applying a kind of knowledge -- an attitude -- that leads the people of every nation to feel friendliness towards the people of other nations and to cooperate in international enterprises. This is a sympathetic understanding, implying a favourable attitude conducive to mutual accord, of which cooperative and peaceful relations are held to be a natural consequence.2. Developing an objective attitude, a sober comprehension of the behaviour of other people, whether friends or enemies. This is objective intellectual understanding which may render the points of disagreement clearer, and in some cases fewer.
Implementation:
A major means of promoting international understanding is held to be education concerning the [United Nations Charter] and the purposes and principles, the structure, background and activities of the UN in schools and institutes of higher learning. Activities aimed at enhancing the humanistic, cultural and international dimension of education represented a major contribution to the World Decade for Cultural Development, as well as being an integral part of UNESCO's contribution to peace, human rights and the elimination of all forms of discrimination. Broader:
Achieving understandingPromoting internationalismDeveloping integrated educational programmes for peace, human rights and democracy Narrower:
Promoting international friendshipEducating for international understandingEstablishing exchanges for international understanding Constrained by:
Abstaining from international understanding Facilitated by:
Mobilizing goodwillBuilding bridges of cooperation Problems:
Lack of international understandingValues:
UnderstandingMisunderstanding Organizations:
Experiment in International Living International Labour Organization United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Health Organization International Board on Books for Young People World Council of Service Clubs International Inner Wheel World Federation of United Nations Associations Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives UNESCO Network of Associated Libraries International Network for Global Education United Nations Population Fund Subjects:
Communication → CommunicationsCommunication → Promotion
Industry → Construction
International Relations → International relations
Development → Development
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
