MUN- Position Papers

I have been doing a lot of good work in MUN recently. I have stayed after school for a meeting and talked with my partner about our position paer. The position paper is really the most important part of MUN because it will detail what position your country would likly take in a UN committee and how you as a representitive should act. We need to find aspects about how the country in involved in the problem. What possible solutions do they support and who they will work with to bring about these solutions. There are two subjects that need to be covered for our committeee in Macedonia and that is Security Sector Reform in Africa and Demining. I talked with my partner and we worked out who would do what. I choose to do Security Sector Reform. So far I have found really great information on this subject. I have found a sppech from a really UN member from Macedonia talking about Security Sector Reform. I have also found that Macedonia is in Candidacey to become a part of the European Union and so they will likly be siding with the major players of the EU to help in gaining membership. Finding this out was helpful because I was able to find many more documents detailing the EUs views on the subject with Macedonia in support of them. I think that this year my paper will be much better reaserched then last years. I have a better understanding and more information on my subject then I did this year and so I will be more prepared and the committee meetings.

This year I am a much more prominate member because I am older and have done this before. Last year I was new and so I needed a lot of help writing my paper. This year I know what to do and I show my skills through helping my partner. My partner is a freshman and has never done MUN before. I was able to help her by explaining the set up of the paper and by helping her find documents. I even set up a messaging thread online where we can both post our sources, talk and share information. If she has questions she also can contact me there as well. I think that I am helping her learn about the MUN prossess and that our paper will be well reaserch and written by the two of us.

MUN- Comitties

We have now chosen our own committees that we will be working on in our country this year in MUN. Last year I chose to be one legal commitee where we mostly focused on the problems of patents and third world countries. This year I wanted to try something new and so I chose military weapons. I chose it because one of the topis will be landmines and the problems surround old undiscovered ones. This is something new and it seems very interesting so I wanted to work on it. I have heard of undiscovered landmines leftover from wars blowing up inocent civilians that happen to tred unknowingly on them and either suffer major injuries or die. This is horrible and I want to know more about it so that I will have a better understanding of this problem our world faces and a better understanding on how to fix such a problem.

One thing that is new this year is that I am working in my committe with a freshman who is new to MUN. This is different because last year a was on a committee with two other people and both of them had been on MUN before and I was the new one. This year I will try to help her because I am more experienced and I know that I appreciated having help when I was new last year. I am excited about being able to help more people in the group because we have a lot of new members this year.