GENEVA INITIATIVE AND THE ROLE OF GREAT COUNTRIES IN THE RESOLUTION OF WAR IN INDOCHINA IN 1954

Abstract

In the late 40s and early 50s of the 20th century, conflicts, wars, the race to possess nuclear weapons, geopolitical competition among major countries, confrontation between socialist countries led by the Soviet Union and capitalist countries led by the US, and the national liberation movement developing strongly in Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc. made the world situation extremely stressful... In Asia, the war against the French colonialism of the Vietnamese people together with the Korean War breaking out with the participation of China and the US-led coalition became increasingly fierce. The already tense world situation was even more fraught. This posed an urgent need to establish a dialogue channel between countries with the participation of major countries and related parties through multilateral international conferences to jointly resolve hot spots and defuse the war tension. The Geneva initiative was born in such a context. The paper presents the background of the Geneva initiative, the role of the major powers in settling the war in Indochina in 1954 and some of the results of these conferences. Thereby,  it clarifies the trend of international peace movement as well as the general trend to resolve the war in Indochina of major countries during the Geneva Conference.