Preparing for the Fall 2014
Stark County High School
Model United Nations
(SCHMUN)
A guide for teachers and students
Thursday, November 20, 2014
1.
Welcome to students and teachers
2.
Country assignments
3.
Our three issues this fall
4.
Steps in the process
How many of you are new to Model UN? New to
SCHMUN? New to Malone’s campus?
Welcome!
It is all about you learning and having fun!
Simulations: Stay in character: Play your role
Bonus: MUN is a great extracurricular
Thank you!!
Professional Development Contact Hours are available
Questions on practical matters?
Delegation assignments: http://schmun.wikispaces.com/Roster+of+Delegations
Any problems or changes?
A. The problem of “Da’ish”
B. Global response to Ebola
C. Cyber-security issues globally
3.a. Head of “ISIS,” “Abu
Bakr al Baghdadi”
DAISH (short for “Dawla al Islamiyya fi Iraq wa al-
Shams,” Arabic for “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria region”) = a negative sounding tone in Arabic
= ISIS: Islamic State inIraq and Syria =
= ISIL: Islamic State in the Levant =
= “So-called Islamic State” (National Public Radio)
Sunni radicalization in Iraq after 2003 US invasion (insurgency and prison networks)
What about Shiites? (Maliki government)
2006: Established by Al Qaeda in Iraq
2010: leaders killed in US-Iraq operation and Abu Bakr takes over
2011-2014: Blowback in Syria (and Iraq?)?
2014, Feb.: Al Qaeda cuts ties with ISIS
Oil and electricity
August, 2014: US –led air campaign vs. Da’ish
Security Council paralysis in dealing with the Syrian
Civil War since 2011
Breakthrough in September 2013 on Chemical Weapons only
Al-Nusra Front (ally of al-Qaeda but enemy of ISIS) took 45 UN Peacekeepers hostage from the Golan
Heights in August-September 2014 (see next slide for map of Golan Heights)
Broader problem: Violent groups rising in weak or failed states
Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan
Houthis in Yemen
Al Shabab in Somalia
Support for coalitions to use force against these groups.
Building stronger, less corrupt states that would provide security for their citizens.
Building resources for peace-building and understanding?
July 20 – one Liberian man travels by plane, infects 19, dies, and 7 more die.
October 20 – the World Health Organization (WHO) announces that Nigeria is free of Ebola.
How did they do it?
Help with treatment (support religious and non-religious
NGOs)?
Reinforce the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response
(UNMEER) in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone?
Build on UN Security Council meetings and statements on
September 18 and October 15, 2014?
Strengthen the World Health Organization’s ability to mobilize more rapidly and put health workers in the field
(beyond its core functions?)
Help reinforce public health systems (Nigeria)?
Longer-range education, prevention, isolation, and containment programs?
3.c. Cyber-Security: Problems
Cyber-attacks by governments as a substitute for physical war
Stuxnet or China vs. the US military
Hacking into commercial sites
Retail (Target and Home Depot)
Corporate secrets and intellectual property
Cyber-vandalism: Example against UN/ITU conference
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43699&Cr=techn ology&Cr1=#.UoTfOL-Abww
Spying and Security Breaches
Wikileaks (Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange)
Edward Snowden and NSA revelations of spying
Setting general norms or rules?
UN Group of Experts: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/06/210418.htm
General Security and Economic “Streams”:
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/maurer-cyber-norm-dp-
2011-11-final.pdf
Taking over regulation of the Internet from semi-private groups?
ITU programs like IMPACT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Multilateral_Partners hip_Against_Cyber_Threats
A. Researching
B.
Writing resolutions
C.
Getting resolutions to the full floor
D. Rules of procedure
In addition to websites for issues (above), see . . .
Some powerful Google search tips
Use “Quotation marks” in search box
Control-F
Domain limits: Site: un.org, unmeetings.org
4.b. Writing Resolutions
See handout (blue paper) on how to write resolutions and hold on to it.
Also see guidelines on website: http://schmun.wikispaces.com/Resolution+formatting+ models
You will view them via classroom projectors in
Committees: Bring a flash drive, email it to yourself, use a
Google Drive, or use Apple Airplay to project directly from your device
Each committee will be allowed to pass only TWO resolutions (for a total of six that will go the full
Assembly)
See handout (pink paper) and hold onto it
Also posted on the website: http://schmun.wikispaces.com
TONIGHT : Malone General Assembly, 6:30 pm here.
Committee meetings (one committee per issue)
Thursday, December 4, 6:30 to 8:30 pm , meet in Regula
Hall 208 (next building north) and go to breakout rooms after that.
Full General Assembly
Saturday, December 6, from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon, here in Silk Auditorium.
Visitors are welcome!