WRITING A RESOLUTION
DEFINE:
Give definition and basic information about the key words.
Use beginning words that show knowledge
Aware that a refugee is a person who…..
Having studied that refugees are found….
DECIDE:
Decide which facts are the most important
Use beginning words that show concern
Concerned that there are (how many)refugees
Deeply concerned (problems of refugees and for the
country they migrate to)
DOCUMENT:
Show results of the above facts with statistics
Use beginning words that show emotion
Use statistics and facts about refugees
DEFEND:
Give facts about something your country has done to
combat the problem but also show problem still exists
Use beginning words that show pleasure or pride
Taking pride that (tell what you have experienced in Asia or
Africa regarding refugees)
DESCRIBE:
Make a connection to what the UN is doing already through
treaties, conventions and special decades
Use beginning words that indicate knowledge
Praises the (UN agencies, UN Conventions, Millenium
Development Goals?)etc for what they have already done
DESIGN:
Create solutions to the problem
Recommend, Urge, solution to problems
DELEGATE:
UN agencies, individuals, NGO’s, and individual countries
Use words that indicate urgency
Give agencies that can help and what they can do…health,
children,
DETAIL:
Explain how these will solve the problems
Use words that indicate confidence
Confident that when this resolution takes effect……
Urges this resolution take effect immediately upon passage