Both countries self-identified with the wider Mediterranean region and shared membership in the Non-Aligned Movement.[1] Lebanon participated at the 1961 First Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade.[1] Both countries experienced significant instabilities and conflicts[2] with weak central authorities which in Yugoslav case led to complete dismemberment of federal institutions and violent breakup of the state.Both regions are religiously and culturally diverse with points of convergence representing Islam in Lebanon and Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia), Eastern Orthodoxy in Lebanon and Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia) Eastern Catholic Maronite Church and Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia.[1] Both Lebanon and Yugoslavia underwent substantial economic and social modernization in the period after the end of World War II which affected different regions to a different extent.