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: Special Political Committee
Chairperson: Evan Malinowski
Legal Counsel: Jeff Lewis and Molly Peters
Special Political Committee Discussion Board
About the Special Political Committee...
The Special Political Committee has been created with overflow in mind. As international peace and security is one of the major driving forces behind the United Nations system, the need for a comprehensive committee far outweighed one committee’s capabilities. The 4th Committee, or the Special Political and Decolonization Committee, was developed to take many of the 1st Committees most specific issues and move them to this committee. In addition to a very similar jurisdiction as the 1st Committee, the Spec. Pol. Committee deals with issues of decolonization and is often charged with issues of Palestine, and colonial rights.
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