Affirming the Spirit of the 1955 Bandung Conference Today

Photograph Source: Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Indonesia – Public Domain

The Bandung Conference in April 1955 has achieved the status of a mythical moment in the history of the Global South. There have been many accounts that have highlighted its downsides—among them, the underrepresentation of leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa and the absence of anyone from Latin America, the way Cold War geopolitical rivalries found their way into the meeting, its legitimization of the nation-state...