Kathmandu, Aug. 13 -- At the height of the Cold War in 1961, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) emerged from the 1955 Bandung Conference of Asian and African nations. The Bandung moment was a manifestation of the collective voice of the newly independent Afro-Asian nations opposing colonialism and rejecting bipolar rivalries of the time. The leaders gathered there articulated the Ten Bandung Principles (Dasa Sila) rooted in thePanchsheel-Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence adopted as a pragmatic approach to insulating their countries from external security threats, focusing on the socio-economic transformation to improve the lives of their people and contribute to a stable global order. Nonalignment was declared a means of safeguarding t...