The objective of ______ is to mediate between the two rival alliances for the cause of peace and stability and refraining member countries from joining military blocs.

Non-Aligned movement

The correct answer is option (1) - Non-Aligned movement

The objective of  Non-Aligned movement is to mediate between the two rival alliances for the cause of peace and stability and refraining member countries from joining military blocs.

The roots of NAM (non alignment movement) went back to the friendship between three leaders — Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito, India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, and Egypt’s leader Gamal Abdel Nasser — who held a meeting in 1956. Indonesia’s Sukarno and Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah strongly supported them. These five leaders came to be known as the five founders of NAM. The first non-aligned summit was held in Belgrade in 1961.