The purpose of "international understanding" is to help people treat foreigners not as abstract people, but as concrete people-they have their own reason, their own pain and their own happiness. The mission of education is to help people find common humanity among different nationalities and advocate mutual tolerance, friendship and cooperation between countries.

After the end of the "Cold War", the nature of international exchanges has undergone profound changes, and the world has developed towards a multipolar pattern. In addition, since the 1990s, the rapid development of information technology marked by network communication has laid the foundation for mankind to fully enter the "era of globalization".

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However, violence, racial discrimination, xenophobia, aggressive nationalism, cultural exclusion, terrorism and other phenomena have not ended, but have shown new characteristics. Under this background, UNESCO held the "44th International Education Conference" with 1994 and 10, which established the basic connotation of international understanding education in the new era and the corresponding "culture of peace".

The General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the 44th International Conference on Education and the corresponding Comprehensive Action Program of Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy. The Declaration and the Programme of Action mark the establishment of "pluralistic educational values" in theory and policy, and embody the basic spirit of the era of globalization.