What is a Model United Nations (MUN)?
A Model United Nations (MUN) is a simulation of the United Nations system which intends to give students or graduates, who are interested in the complex world of international relations, the possibility to play a leading role in the conducting and decision-making of the United Nations for a few days. A Model United Nations faithfully reproduces the mechanism of negotiations of specific committees of the United Nations and follows the rules of discussions within them. It has the aim of opening debates regarding imminent global issues and making the decisions needed to deal with these critical situations at an international level. This simulation gives an important opportunity for young people from all over the world to comprehend the life and work of International Organizations and to provide a platform for international discussion among foreign students. Moreover, they have a real opportunity to demonstrate their political and international knowledge and communication skills openly.
Participants take the role of a delegate of a chosen foreign country and have the task of negotiating and discussing the official position of that country so as to defend their national interests regarding international issues. In order to do this, participants are required to demonstrate their profound knowledge of issues under discussion, the official position of the country member as well as the procedural regulations which are utilized in the real UN mechanism of negotiation.
Participants take the role of a delegate of a chosen foreign country and have the task of negotiating and discussing the official position of that country so as to defend their national interests regarding international issues. In order to do this, participants are required to demonstrate their profound knowledge of issues under discussion, the official position of the country member as well as the procedural regulations which are utilized in the real UN mechanism of negotiation.
The World Federation of United Nations Associations
Inspired by the opening words of the United Nations Charter "We the Peoples", the World Federation was created in 1946 - one year after the establishment of the UN. Today, WFUNA is a global network of hundreds of thousands of people linked together through United Nations Associations (UNAs) in over 100 member states of the UN. WFUNA’s mission is to inform, sustain and energize a global network of United Nations Associations to support the principles and programs of the United Nations and to help shape its agenda.
In Italy, the Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI), otherwise known as UNA- Italy,
founded in Rome on the 4th of October 1944, promotes the activities and principles of the UN through a variety of activities, and through its youth branch, the Students’ Movement for the International Organization (MSOI).
Discover more about WFUNA and MUNs at: www.wfuna.org and on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/wfuna
Movimento Studentesco per l'Organizzazione Internazionale - Piazza di San Marco, 51
00186 Roma Tel. ++39 - 06 6920781 - e mail: romun@msoi.org - Copyright @ 2009
