The World after World War II - Non-Aligned Movement | 10th Social Science : History : Chapter 4 : The World after World War II
Chapter: 10th Social Science : History : Chapter 4 : The World after World War II
Non-Aligned Movement
Non-Aligned Movement
The
Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) emerged in the wake of decolonization that
followed World War II. At the Bandung (a city in Indonesia) conference (1955),
the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa gave a call for abstaining
from allying with any of the two Super Powers. It also pledged to fight all
forms of colonialism and imperialism.
The NAM
held its first conference at Belgrade in 1961 under the leadership of Tito
(Yugoslavia), Nasser (Egypt), Nehru (India), Nkrumah (Ghana) and Sukarno
(Indonesia). The basic principles of non-alignment, as listed in the statement
issued at the Belgrade (a Serbian city, then part of Yugoslavia) Conference,
were: peaceful co-existence, commitment to peace and security, no military
alliance with any super power, no permission for any super power to build its
military base in its territories. With the collapse of Soviet Union, the idea
of non-alignment lost relevance.
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