Publication Type

Encyclopaedia

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2016

Abstract

The 1955 Asian-African Conference (also known as the “Bandung Conference”), took place on April 18–24 in Bandung, Indonesia. The conference, co-sponsored by Burma, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, brought together 29 newly independent nations of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The states in attendance comprised almost half of the UN membership and collectively represented about 1.5 billion people. They came together to discuss common concerns surrounding anticolonial nationalism, self-determination, non-interference, and Great Power dominance over international affairs. The conference also marked a major turning point in the history of universal human rights in that its framing of self-determination as a prerequisite to fully enjoy fundamental rights became a central reference point for anticolonial thinkers of the twentieth century. In Online Atlas on the History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights, edited by Fabian Klose, Marc Palen, Johannes Paulmann, and Andrew Thompson. Leibniz Institute of European History and the University of Exeter, 2016.

Discipline

Asian Studies | International Relations

Research Areas

Political Science

First Page

1

Last Page

4

Publisher

Leibniz Institute

Copyright Owner and License

Authors-CC-NC-SA

Additional URL

https://hhr-atlas.ieg-mainz.de/articles/quinton-brown-bandung

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