Welcome to MUN Sign in at the Front

Welcome to MUN Sign in at the Front!

What do we do? ● Participate and compete in Model United Nations ● Weekly meetings with fun lessons and even more fun activities! ● Committee Simulations (UNEA, 1908 WSPU) ● Social Events! ● Win ● Explore new cities!

What will IRO do for you? ● Enhances your public speaking skills ● Makes you a better researcher and writer ● Takes you all over the country ● Introduces you to new topics and people ● Looks good on a resume ● Helps you make friends

What Is MUN? ▶ Model UN is a cooperative activity with three core values ▶ Speaking: Formal Debate ▶ Writing: Resolutions, Directives, Press Releases. Policy, Law ▶ Research ▶ You will act as a country/person and represent their values and priorities in an international committee ▶ Two main types of committees: ▶ General Assembly and Specialized ▶ Crisis

General Assemblies and Specialized ▶ ▶ The heart and soul of MUN GAs: Often made up of real UN committees, very large ▶ DISEC, ECOFIN, SOCHUM, SPECPOL, Legal Specialized: Wide variety of governing bodies and other leaders of organizations. Medium to Small in size. ▶ Committees designed to solve a wide reaching problem through joint documents known as resolutions. ▶ Debate and teamwork heavy ▶

Crisis ▶ Committee as a collection of leaders running a shared organization to achieve something or solve problems. ▶ ▶ ▶ Cabinet of a country Board of trustees Rebel leaders in a revolution Committee is consistently updated through drops Committees undertake actions through miniresolutions called directives ▶ Personal actions can be taken through notes ▶ Still a lot of debate ▶ Smaller committees, usually representing people and not whole countries ▶ ▶