NAM For Resilient Global Order

The 19th summit conference of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ended at Kampala, capital of Uganda on 20 January with consensus on reinventing the relevance of the movement but clueless about how to restructure its operational framework to enable it to address multi-polar geo-political realities. NAM had come into existence in September 1961, just one year before the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, as a response to the challenges emanating from the bipolar world order. This movement, which remained a powerful alternative framework for handling global affairs more than five decade, is now at its lowest ebb.