1961 – · Belgrade / Bandung
The Non-Aligned Movement
After the Second World War, the world split into two big teams — the American one and the Soviet one. India said: we don't want to join either. We want to be friends with everyone. That idea became a whole movement of countries called the Non-Aligned Movement.
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The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) grew out of the 1955 Bandung Conference and was formally founded in Belgrade in 1961 by Nehru (India), Nasser (Egypt), Tito (Yugoslavia), Sukarno (Indonesia) and Nkrumah (Ghana). It gave newly independent nations a common voice on decolonisation, disarmament and development during the Cold War. NAM today has 120 member states.
- ◆Founded in Belgrade, 1961
- ◆Nehru was a co-founder
- ◆Grew out of the 1955 Bandung Conference
- ◆120 member states today
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