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.
General Assembly: Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee
Chairperson: Brian Hilger
Legal Counsels: Matt Fetters and Jason Russell
About the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee...
The Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (SH&C) was formed as a main body of the General Assembly in order to handle those issues named in its title. Issues dealing with social implications, humanitarian affairs, and cultural importance are taken up in this committee. Topics often considered in this committee deal with human rights, women’s rights, cultural sovereignty, genital mutilation and many others. This committee provides some of the most complex issues, as they are intimately tied to the culture and personal lives of people around the world.
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