Model United Nations Project Reflection
The United Nations is an organization that was created in response to the horrific events of World War ll. It was created very shortly after the war had ended. The UN was founded in October of 1945 by the recuperating nations of the shattered world after World War ll who were eager for peace to return. Currently, the United Nations is made up of 193 member states. Their main focuses are peace, security, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarian assistance. The United Nations is comprised of different organs. The largest organ is the General Assembly comprised of all 193 member states. This assembly's main purpose is to pass policies in the UN. Then there is the Security Council; this branch is comprised of 15 members with 5 permanent members which are the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and France. There are also 10 non-permanent members.The purpose of the Security Council is to maintain international peace and security in the world. There are other organs of the United Nations although the ones described above are the most influential in the UN.
A Model United Nations is a representation of an aspect of the real United Nations performed by a group of individuals. A Model United Nations format has also been used as the basis for a national competition where groups compete to see what group can more accurately represent the countries, their values, and perform parliamentary procedure correctly. Our class performed a Model United Nations in which we were demonstrating the function of the General Assembly. In our classes Model United Nations, I played the role of the chair. The chair is the equivalent of the judge a court of law. As a chair, I had to be well-versed in parliamentary procedure which the General Assembly follows. A chair runs the general assembly and helps organize the meeting.
My unique position of chair during this project pushed me slightly out of my comfort zone. In the past have not been very strong in my ability to speak in front of many people especially when I need to be following parliamentary procedure exactly. Subsequently, to try and counteract this problem I developed a document with a quick guide to all of the parliamentary procedures. This way if I did not know how to address a country's inquiry on parliamentary procedure I could quickly look it up and address the issue. For the first half of this project, I was assigned to represent the country of The Islamic Republic of Iran. I had a struggle portraying the views of this country because as a United States citizen I have been steeped in views contrary to that of my assigned country's. I am surprised at how complex it would be for me to have completely accurately represented Iran's viewpoints.
I am proud of our classes ability to pull together enough parliamentary procedure to have some order in the actual Model United Nations. I believe that my classmates through their very thought out speeches demonstrated their countries values very well they discussed in character and had the same suspicions of other countries that I believe that the real UN might have. If I were to do this project again, I would prepare everybody with more practice MUN topics and better parliamentary procedure. I would familiarize myself with parliamentary procedure better to more accurately answer points of inquiry during debate on the procedure and its effects. The most challenging part of this project for me was my ability to memorize parliamentary procedure correctly. I tried to remember all of the parliamentary procedure for the exhibition, but despite my best efforts, I could not get all of the procedure always perfectly right.
This project changed my view on the complexity of global issues such as climate change and increasing frequency of refugee crisis around the globe. For the first practice Model United Nations, I represented The Islamic Republic of Iran as a delegate in the MUN. Through researching and discovering the complexity of the issues and viewpoints that my country alone had, I realized just how complicated it is to satisfy all of the countries needs, and perspectives on even more complex issues. The issue of the refugee crisis has given me a new and more informed perspective on the intricacies of these issues around the globe and how the United Nations works to solve them. I learned how to identify countries with similar interests to help, and use them to my country's advantage in a diplomatic debate. Concerning the issue of the Global Refugee Crisis, I was tasked with accurately representing my country's perspective. I bargained to get different amendments passed that were synonymous with my country's interests. I used persuasive language to aid my point in informal caucuses. The largest challenge for me in this project is when I took on the added challenge of acting as the chair for the second MUN. Through my experiences throughout high school so far I have deduced that if I never step out of my comfort zone I will never fully acquire the amount of knowledge that would lead me to a fulfilled life.
A Model United Nations is a representation of an aspect of the real United Nations performed by a group of individuals. A Model United Nations format has also been used as the basis for a national competition where groups compete to see what group can more accurately represent the countries, their values, and perform parliamentary procedure correctly. Our class performed a Model United Nations in which we were demonstrating the function of the General Assembly. In our classes Model United Nations, I played the role of the chair. The chair is the equivalent of the judge a court of law. As a chair, I had to be well-versed in parliamentary procedure which the General Assembly follows. A chair runs the general assembly and helps organize the meeting.
My unique position of chair during this project pushed me slightly out of my comfort zone. In the past have not been very strong in my ability to speak in front of many people especially when I need to be following parliamentary procedure exactly. Subsequently, to try and counteract this problem I developed a document with a quick guide to all of the parliamentary procedures. This way if I did not know how to address a country's inquiry on parliamentary procedure I could quickly look it up and address the issue. For the first half of this project, I was assigned to represent the country of The Islamic Republic of Iran. I had a struggle portraying the views of this country because as a United States citizen I have been steeped in views contrary to that of my assigned country's. I am surprised at how complex it would be for me to have completely accurately represented Iran's viewpoints.
I am proud of our classes ability to pull together enough parliamentary procedure to have some order in the actual Model United Nations. I believe that my classmates through their very thought out speeches demonstrated their countries values very well they discussed in character and had the same suspicions of other countries that I believe that the real UN might have. If I were to do this project again, I would prepare everybody with more practice MUN topics and better parliamentary procedure. I would familiarize myself with parliamentary procedure better to more accurately answer points of inquiry during debate on the procedure and its effects. The most challenging part of this project for me was my ability to memorize parliamentary procedure correctly. I tried to remember all of the parliamentary procedure for the exhibition, but despite my best efforts, I could not get all of the procedure always perfectly right.
This project changed my view on the complexity of global issues such as climate change and increasing frequency of refugee crisis around the globe. For the first practice Model United Nations, I represented The Islamic Republic of Iran as a delegate in the MUN. Through researching and discovering the complexity of the issues and viewpoints that my country alone had, I realized just how complicated it is to satisfy all of the countries needs, and perspectives on even more complex issues. The issue of the refugee crisis has given me a new and more informed perspective on the intricacies of these issues around the globe and how the United Nations works to solve them. I learned how to identify countries with similar interests to help, and use them to my country's advantage in a diplomatic debate. Concerning the issue of the Global Refugee Crisis, I was tasked with accurately representing my country's perspective. I bargained to get different amendments passed that were synonymous with my country's interests. I used persuasive language to aid my point in informal caucuses. The largest challenge for me in this project is when I took on the added challenge of acting as the chair for the second MUN. Through my experiences throughout high school so far I have deduced that if I never step out of my comfort zone I will never fully acquire the amount of knowledge that would lead me to a fulfilled life.