by Andrew Maglio | Apr 30, 2020 | MUN Articles, Strategy
Let’s be frank: your first conference will not be pretty. Parliamentary Procedure is one thing on paper, or in a casual club simulation, but it is an entirely different experience in a high-intensity, competitive environment. You will show up with research, but there... 
by Iman Shumburo | Mar 24, 2020 | MUN Articles, Strategy
The staple of every major college-run Model UN conference is the massive, standard General Assembly; be it DISEC, SOCHUM, or SPECPOL, these committees can sometimes contain as many as 300 delegates, or more. It goes without saying, then, that making yourself known in... 
by Alyssa Nguyen | Feb 27, 2020 | Editorial, MUN Articles
That Model UN is an intensely, intrinsically, deeply academic activity is no secret. Model UN delegates come together at massive conferences to engage in a competitive, nuanced debate of the most complex geopolitical issues facing the world today. Though Model UN is... 
by Maheen Safian | Feb 24, 2020 | MUN Articles, Strategy
The sport of Model United Nations in the present day has far strayed from the activity it once was upon inception in the early 1900s, originally accessible only to elite preparatory educational institutions. Strictly adhering to traditional committee formats, such as... 
by Khadija Sow | Feb 23, 2020 | MUN Articles, Strategy
A Model UN unmoderated caucus–colloquially an “unmod”– is a motion in which debate goes unregulated: delegates are free to get up from their seats, and move around the committee room to discuss with other delegates or work on writing papers. These...
