The Model United Nations
Program in AST seeks to reflect the ideas and principles of a peaceful post Cold War world. The teachers of the
program believe that this world order is more accurately reflective of the original motives of the authors of the 1945 San Francisco Charter
than the events that followed the Potsdam Conference earlier in that same year.
Current events affirm that
the attitudes, negotiations and voting patterns of the UN members are changing. Hence, at TAIMUN the diplomat of any member state, no
matter how large or small, rich or poor, who exercises independence of character and a critical mind, will
truly serve his nation honorably in a great experiment in world community. The individual
delegate’s attitude, efforts at communication and behavior will be the most
important factors in the drive for a better world and a
quality
MUN conference. Any delegate who sits idly by weakens his own nation’s
significance in this simulation.
MUN teachers have the
daunting instructional task of destroying stereotypes to free students
to think and communicate both as delegates and diplomats of a world community.
Those with so called non-essential countries and those with spotlighted
countries have equally difficult tasks.
We ask for your
understanding, cooperation and best work in preparation and participation
in order to uphold the principles described above. Victory belongs to all of the
delegates at the conference who negotiate the best solutions possible to the most complex issues of
this new era in which we live.
THE TAIMUN
COORDINATORS,
Irwin Stein, Eric
Kelley, Mary Stein, Michael Baudisch-McCabe
(Timing for each event determined by location, size, and instructional
purpose).
PRE CONFERENCE PREPARATIONS: Delegates
assigned to committees and given country or chair roles. Research, writing
policy statements, preparing opening speeches, collaborating on resolutions to
submit to the Approval Panel during Event One.
Training
of Chairs to: 1) Facilitates in Lobbying, 2) Conduct Formal
Meetings of Committees, and 3) Facilitate In-Committee
Lobbying.
EVENT ONE: Lobbying,
Approval Panel, and Printing of Committee Official Resolutions.
EVENT TWO: Opening
Ceremony – Keynoter and SG Speech. Dismissal to Committees.
EVENT THREE: Committee Chair
Speeches. Opening Speeches with Rights of Reply and Debates on Resolutions.
EVENT FOUR: Possible
Security Council Session to Respond to Crisis.
EVENT FIVE: General
Assembly to discuss SC results.
EVENT SIX: Closing
Ceremony.
Faculty Roles:
Pre Conference
Research guidance.
Proofreaders of policies, resolutions.
Issues’ Experts.
Speech evaluators and timers.
Facilitators for group collaboration on resolutions.
Conference Materials and Set up: AV, placards,
flags, memo paper, program book, seating. Breaks.
Conference Time:
Approval Panal.
Computer lab supervision.
Press supervision, proofing, support – layout,
printing, collating.
Committee supervision and materials control.