The Bandung Conference (1955): Ideology of Non-Alignment and Pragmatism of Afro-Asian Alliances

Abstract

Since the 1990s, there has been the rise of the Global Social Forum (GSF) with the coalition of progressive groups from different social, environmen- tal, and intellectual backgrounds all over the world. Its role, as an umbrella of a resistance movement against neoliberal globalization and its reformist policies and agenda, has been to influence or to disturb the meetings of the boards of directors of the global institutions on behalf of the poor people, the poor economies, and poor countries. In the long run, the ultimate claim of this movement is to search for an alternative system of governance with a high dose of participatory management of social and human resources, and a strong basis for equal distribution of the global resources. The majority of the poor people are located in Africa.