Model United Nations is program that has been around for over fifty years in colleges and high schools around the world. The premise is this: Students assume the roles of ambassadors to the United Nations and are provided with an agenda comprised of items also being debated by the real United Nations in New York. Students, acting as delegates, research the issues from the agenda and study their assigned nation's point-of-view in order to accurately represent the country.
Upon arriving at a Model United Nations conference, delegates will meet in committee sessions to debate the issues from the agenda, draft resolutions, and ultimately arrive at the best solution the committee can devise. During a conference, delegates are challenged to persuade, influence, compromise, and ultimately make peace with friends and strangers while working within a structured process of debate.
Agenda Topics...
At MAMUN 2010 there will be a General Assembly, an ECOSOC Plenary,
five G.A. committees and three ECOSOC Committees. a Security Council,
an International Court of Justice, and up to six crisis
simulations. The number following the topic in parentheses is the
actual agenda topic number for the General Assembly Provisional
Agenda.
General Assembly (GA)
Committees
A. Question of
B. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict (12)
C. Relationship between disarmament and development (95o)
D. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (105)
II. Special Political
Committee
A. Causes of conflict and the promotion of
durable peace and sustainable development in
B. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (32)
C. Assistance in Mine Action (28)
D. Protection against trafficking in cultural property (E14c)
III. Social Humanitarian and Cultural
Committee
A. Women in development (58b)
B. Promotion and protection of human rights (70)
C. Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (68a)
D. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions (42)
IV. Science and Technology
Committee
A. Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures (85b)
B. Preventing the acquisition by terrorists of radioactive materials and sources (95e)
Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment
on HIV/AIDS and the
C. Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (45)
D. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons (92)
A. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission (78)
B. International drug control (104)
C. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters (118)
D. The rule of law at the national and international levels (83)
Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) Committees
A. South-South cooperation for development (59b)
B. New Partnership for
C. Eradication of poverty and other development issues (124)
D. External debt and development: towards a durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries (52c)
A. Protection against products harmful to health and the environment (E13a)
B. Promoting full employment and decent work for all. (E14b)
C. Strengthening prevention of urban crime: an integrated approach (E13a)
D. Strengthening
coordination of the United Nations and other efforts in fighting the
trafficking of persons (E14)
A. Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy (54i)
B. Sustainable mountain development (54h)
C. Agriculture development and food security (61)
D. Protection of global climate for present and future generations (54d)
C. Non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
D. The Situation in the Middle East
E. Peace and Security in West Africa
F. Open
International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice is composed of 14
student-delegate justices plus a conference staff member as Chief
Justice. The advocates for the parties involved in the suit are
also staff members.
Case 2010-02
Case
Topics will be announced during MAMUN 2010
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