Bandung resolved the human-rights dispute with a deliberate ambiguity

Evidence

Ultimately, this argument was resolved through what Malik considered a ‘very satisfactory’ compromise: the final communiqué ‘took note’ of the UDHR, while condemning colonialism ‘in all its forms’, leaving delegates to interpret this as they wished. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 277

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the diplomatic device of constructive ambiguity: ‘took note’ allowed each delegate to read the communiqué as endorsing or resisting the UDHR.
• XREF: connects to: The relativism-universalism dispute obscures what really matters in human rights; The Bandung Conference admitted states, not peoples, and excluded whole continents — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 559

Broader Connections

• The Bandung Conference admitted states, not peoples, and excluded whole continents #complicates (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 559
• The relativism-universalism dispute obscures what really matters in human rights #qualifies (0.72)