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How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared The MUN Guide By Uday Rai Mehra International School of Amsterdam how to help MODEL UNITED NATIONS delegates become prepared How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared how to help MODEL UNITED NATIONS delegates become prepared 2 How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared I dedicate this guide to those who’ve — in some way— helped me in this process. Jyotsna and Rajiv Mehra You have been the most supportive parents for anything I have done. You have always stood by me. Ms. Angelika Küster You’ve been a magniﬁ cent Advisor, and your ideas, contributions and help have been extremely helpful. Thank you for everything, without you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Mr. Brian Chenault and Ms. Tanya Nizam From even before I began MUN, you both encouraged me to join ISA’s MUN club. Your advice has always been fruitful and refreshing. Ms. Frances Laughlin Every time we met and I showed you my progress, you’ve always been motivating, encouraging and pro- vided me with helpful solutions to the problems I came across. Thank you for all of your help along the way. Ms. Linda Dubock It was wonderful to get your advice and opinion of my guide at THIMUN 2010. Thank you for your ideas, which have helped me to further develop this guide. Ms. Donna Saxby and Ms. Nathalie Morrissey From ordering books, to citing sources, to even keeping the Library open until late, I couldn’t have done this without both of your continual cooperation, support and help. Mr. Alessandro Guglielmi Your continual help and always being “online” whenever I needed you assisted me throughout the whole way. Our conversations, your opinions and ideas never ceased to amaze and be insightful. Thank you for all your guidance throughout this process as a continual support for this guide. Ms. Vivian Wu As my ﬁ rst conference chair, you have been the most supportive, helpful and encouraging chair. I owe all what I have learnt to you and your notes that explained things to me when I looked unsure. Had you not been so persistent to make me speak and “get out there”, I wouldn’t have succumbed to enjoying MUN. Ms. Bettina Böhm You were there at my ﬁ rst conference, and sat next to me as my guide and help throughout the conference. Without your little notes in your folder to me, or your whispers, I would’ve taken much longer to grasp MUN. Thank you Bettina. Ms. Elena Cinelli Your ideas as a new MUN Club member offered me a different insight which I greatly value and appreciate. Without your comments, I wouldn’t have known what new delegates want from a guide to MUN. Mr. Ibrahim Cem Polat and Mr. Engin Polat Thank you both for the work you have done throughout this project. You are two of the most creative, inno- vative and committed people I know. It has been a true pleasure to work with you. Dedications How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared how to help MODEL UNITED NATIONS delegates become prepared 3 “The ﬁ rst ingredient of political stability is an informed citizen. The ﬁ rst ingredient of economic progress is a skilled worker. And the ﬁ rst ingredient of social justice is an enlightened society. Education is thus the key to global peace and prosperity”- Koﬁ Anan This guide has been made for MUN club members. It is here to help you whilst preparing for an MUN Conference; whether you need help researching a country, a topic, or learning about MUN proce- dures. This guide is split into three parts. You can study it chronologically, or go directly to the sec- tion you would like to learn more about. To see the content of the guide, please refer to the following pages, The Contents Pages to direct yourself to the desired aspect of MUN you would like to further study. This guide has been made in a way that it does not overwhelm the reader by the different procedures one carries out during an MUN conference, but rather, it has been designed in a way that allows one to learn about MUN in a way that does not require reading unnecessary information to understand the desired article of study. I would hope from this guide, you would beneﬁ t it, and that it would help you to understand MUN in a more coherent manner. I hope that this guide will allow you to follow the steps in the guide and that it would place you on the right road in your MUN career; in being a successful MUN Club Member. Though MUN can seem intimidating, be it your ﬁ rst or your tenth conference experience, the key to success is good preparation. From this guide, I hope that your preparation skills will change and will allow you to be conﬁ dent and successful at debate and expressing your views and ideas. Best of Luck, Uday Rai Mehra February 2010 Preface How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared how to help MODEL UNITED NATIONS delegates become prepared 4 Topic Page Number PART I 6 Origins of MUN 7 Aims of MUN Conferences 7 Who can Do MUN? 7 PART II 8 Available Sources: Researching a Delegation 9 How to Research a Delegation- Countries 11 How to Research a Delegation- Organisations 15 Available Sources: Researching an Issue 17 How to Research an Issue 19 Researching Committees: 20 Security Council 20 Advisory Panel Question 22 Human Rights Commission 22 Disarmament Commission 22 Environment Commission 22 ECOSOC 23 Special Conference 24 General Assembly 25 GA1 25 GA2 25 GA3 25 GA4 26 GA5 26 GA6 26 Inter-Governmental Organisation Committees 26 Communiqués 27 International Court of Justice 28 International Criminal Court 28 The (M)UN System 29 The Discussion Forum 30 Resolutions 33 Heading 33 Preambulatory Clauses 33 Operative Clauses 33 The Layout 34 The Format 37 Do’s and Don’ts 39 Some Bad Clauses 41 Useful Preambulatory Clauses 42 Useful Operative Clauses 43 Contents Page How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared how to help MODEL UNITED NATIONS delegates become prepared 5 Topic Page Number PART III 44 Roles at MUN 45 Delegate 45 Ambassador 45 Opening Speeches 46 Notepaper 46 Student Ofﬁ cers 49 Administrative Staff 50 MUN Press 50 Executive Conference Staff 50 Vocabulary and Terms 51 Vocabulary 51 Phrases 54 Points 55 Motions 56 Voting 57 Yielding 57 Policy Statements/Position Papers 58 How to Lobby 59 Approval Panel Process 61 How Debate Works 62 Voting Procedures 64 Amendment Procedure 65 Debate at Ad Hoc Committees 66 Amendments in Ad Hoc Committees 69 Voting in Ad Hoc Committees 70 Equipment and Attire 71 Male Clothing 71 Female Clothing 72 Do’s and Don’ts 73 Equipment 74 Bibliography 75 Bibliography of Sources 76 Bibliography of Images 77 How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared how to help MODEL UNITED NATIONS delegates become prepared 6 PART 1: WHAT IS MUN? How To Help MUN Delegates Become Prepared how to help MODEL UNITED NATIONS delegates become prepared 7 The Origins of MUN MUN (Model United Nations) is an extra curricular activity in many schools and universities where students assume the roles of countries and organisations represented in the United Nations in speciﬁ c committees and debate about issues concerning the world. The United Nations was formed at the end of the Sec- ond World War. It was preceded by a similar organisation; known as the “League of Nations”. During the 1920s at the University of Harvard, students and teachers of International Relations and Politics courses created a simulation known as Model League of Nations, where students would represent the League of Nations and debate subjects like colonisation, war and empire debates. After World War Two, once the United Nations was established, Harvard replaced the Model League of Nations with Model United Nations (MUN). Soon after, schools in New York began to follow that trend, and by the mid 1950s, all the Ivy League Universities in the United States held their own MUN Conference. In the 1960s, MUN became popular in schools rather than just universities, and in 1968, a teacher at the American School of The Hague, Mr. Paul Sand founded “The Hague International Model United Nations” Conference (THIMUN). This conference began for four schools in The Hague, being the French School, The British School, The American School and the German School. By the mid 1980s, THIMUN became one of the largest and most popular conferences in the world; outside of the United States, and today it welcomes 4,500 students from all over the world to participate in structured UN styled debate in a variety of committees. The Aims of Model United Nations Conferences The Aims of an MUN conference are to encourage debate and sharing of views between students from different schools and of different ethnicities. The Ultimate goal of an MUN Conference is to promote awareness of international relations and issues in young people, and to inspire global mindedness and an understanding to uploads/S4/ mun-guide.pdf