by Sarah Schwartz | Oct 25, 2022 | MUN 101
What is effective preparation? Like any activity, there is a distinction between being prepared and flying on the seat of your pants. You never want to just wing it all the time and go into something unprepared. However, it’s also easy to prepare ineffectively or...
by Gabby MacKay | Aug 28, 2022 | Community, Editorial, MUN Articles
As I look forward to the 2022-2023 school year, I cannot help but look back on what was a memorable year for many reasons. The first year of full-scale in-person Model UN since the beginning of the pandemic, a year-long individual awards rate of over 95%, and the...
by Sarah Schwartz | Aug 3, 2022 | MUN 101
Crisis Committees in Model UN Crisis is another type of committee commonly found on the Model UN circuit. Different from General Assembly (GA) committees, crisis committees involve two elements, called front-room and back-room. To learn more about the structure of a...
by Sarah Schwartz | Aug 1, 2022 | MUN 101
Structure of a Crisis Committee in Model UN Crisis committees are a popular committee style you can find at almost every conference on the Model UN circuit. These committees are unique in the fact that they deviate from the more recognizable and common understanding...
by Simon Rosenbaum | Apr 20, 2022 | Feature Article, MUN Articles, Strategy
If you have done a crisis committee before, you’ve seen a variety of crisis arc archetypes. There’s the Cult Arc, where your base asset is a cult you create to impact the committee. There’s the arc where you create a shell company to fund your...