Question

When did the concept of non-alignment emerge and why?

Answer 1

The seeds of the Non-Alignment was sown in the Bandung Asian African Conference held in 1955 but it came into existence in 1961 with the first non-aligned summit, with the meeting of the five founding members Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdul Nassar of Egypt, Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. It came into existence due to the tense environment of the Cold War and the emergence of newly independent colonies which need to protect their sovereignty from being compromised by the superpowers USA and USSR.