The Non-Aligned Movement is an international organization of states that formally declare themselves not aligned with or against any major power bloc, founded at the Belgrade Conference in September 1961 during the height of Cold War tensions between the United States-led Western bloc and the Soviet-led Eastern bloc. Its founding was driven by leaders including Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, building on principles of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist solidarity first articulated at the 1955 Bandung Conference of Asian and African states. The movement positioned itself as a political voice for newly independent and developing nations seeking to avoid entanglement in superpower rivalry while pursuing their own paths of economic development and sovereignty. It has continued to meet in regular summits after the Cold War's end, and with well over one hundred member states drawn overwhelmingly from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, it remains one of the largest formal groupings of states in the world after the United Nations itself.
Facts
Organization TypeIntergovernmental political movement 1 IndustryInternational diplomacy and coordination among developing countries 1 Organization Type
Organization Type (category)Intergovernmental Organization 1 Organization Type (category)Political Organization / Movement 1 Connections
Associated With
Several founding and later ASEAN members took part in the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War.
Nasser was one of the movement's founding leaders alongside Nehru, Tito, Sukarno and Nkrumah.
Nehru was one of the movement's founding leaders at its 1961 Belgrade conference.
In Era
Founded at the Belgrade Conference in September 1961, within the Cold War (1947 to 1991).
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Non-Aligned Movement
Wikipedialead paragraph
It was founded with the view to advancing interests of developing countries in the context of Cold War confrontation.
body text on the Belgrade founding
In 1961, drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference of 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was formally established in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, through an initiative led by Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesian president Sukarno.
Lead section, opening sentence
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
In Group: International Organizations Founded from 1945 Onward, Article text
But it soon after became the name to refer to the participants of the Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries first held in 1961.
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