Model united nations 2017
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The model united nations project was focus on the topic the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Our essentials questions where "Why is the Syrian refugee crisis happening?" and "What should the rest of the world do about it?" I was in committee one and I was representing the country, Iraq. At first I didn't want to do the project just because of past experiences. During the actual conference, I enjoyed it because I had a topic this time that actually interest me.
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My country: |
I had the country Iraq. Iraq is located in the middle east and has the neighboring countries of Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey. Iraq has taken in over 220,000 refugees on top of the 3 million people internally displaced. It is definitely hard for Iraq to help all the refugees when they are still not recovered from their civil war and fighting ISIS. The Iraqi government is a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, often referred to as "The Republic of Iraq". As the US has, the Iraqi government has 3 branches, the executive, the legislative and the judicial.
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most useful article: |
The most useful article to me was mercycorps.org. They had a quick facts article that gave me lots of numbers and statistics. I found it by looking up the Syrian crisis and these facts came up and it ended up being a great resource. A really helpful fact that I learned was the UN was suppose to receive $4.8 billion by the end of 2016 to help towards emergency support but only $2.9 billion was reached in March 2017. This made me wonder why didn't the UN receive the money?
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Position Paper: |
Between the three drafts of my position paper, I struggled getting critique because I was out sick. It was hard to get that one on one conversation so that I can improve my paper. I mostly changed the grammar because I am not so great with that and spelling. My helpful critiques came from Dr. P telling me to add to my resolution section and providing me links to articles. One thing I am proud of is how straight to the point it is, but I do wish that I could go back and taken more time after reading my peers.
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opening speech: |
Between the first and second draft I mostly changed grammar and I did add in a few facts that I thought could make it much stronger. A good critique I got from Evette and Pablo was talking slower while I present. I kept that in mind during the MUN conference and I felt like that did help a lot. Another helpful critique was with Noah. He helped me add some of my stronger statistics in the beginning so I am able to hook on the listeners and make my country sound very strong. I think what I would have changed is add more facts about what Iraq is doing in the crisis, because I just talked about the crisis overall.
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EXPERIENCE of the conference: |
I am so proud of the resolution I helped come up with. I worked with Lebanon, Turkey, and a few other countries to include the other resolution idea in our committee and also add onto how we would defeat ISIS and how we would rebuild Syria's government to stabilize them since so many Syrians didn't want to leave in the first place. We ended up getting the best resolution idea out of the whole conference and it did feel so good. I am very proud of how my committee, number 1, kept it so professional and we were on task even during unmoderated caucus. I think I would have talked a lot more if I were to do it again and my advice to students next year is to talk as much as you can but don't be too repetitive with what you say.
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key moment: |
A memorable moment for me is when I heard countries say their resolution idea that I was very surprised to agree with. We created a resolution together and it was a very thorough and thought out idea that went into detail deeply. I also really liked the chairs that ran my committee because they were nice, respectful and not rude at all. Very helpful with reminding us of the language we were suppose to use. Overall this project surprised me with how much I really enjoyed it.
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