Homestead attends the Model United Nations conference at UWM
Homestead’s MUN smiles for a photo at the conference at UWM.
On Thursday, March 22 and Friday, March 23, Homestead’s Model United Nations Club (MUN) went to the UW-Milwaukee MUN conference.
Model UN was started at Homestead this year by Emma Como and Alex Castroverde, juniors, and it’s a club that teaches students about world relations and diplomacy. The club divides its members into different groups, each which represents a different country. Each group’s members have a different issue about their country they had to research in order to be prepared for the conference last week where they presented their findings as the United Nations and tried to get their proposed solution to the problem passed.
During the year, committee members met once a week to discuss their research on their issue, how the country has tried to fix it, and what the country should further do such as positions to pass and laws.
“We worked weeks in advance trying to figure out our respected country’s’ position on the work issues. The delegation worked so hard, and I am so proud of them,” Castroverde said.
Homestead’s MUN had three delegations at the conference: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Singapore, and Jordan. In each delegation there are four committees: Disarmament and International Security; Economic and Financial; Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural; and Special Political and Decolonization. After members were put into their committee, they were given a subcommittee within their committee. Some of these included Post Conflict Disarmament of Non-State Actors, Climate Change Threats to Island States, and Economic Sustainability and Famine Relief.
The first day of the conference, all schools participating in the conference met in their countries to have a final discussion and then split up to go to their subcommittee rooms where they debated about their issue and drafted a resolution explaining what laws they, the United Nations, wanted to pass. Later in the day, main committees gathered in separate rooms to go through resolutions and vote on whether they would pass or not.
Talia Eiseman, senior, was in the Special Political and Decolonization committee with a focus on preventing the collapse of the South Sedan. “Through my research and participation in my subcommittee discussion, I learned so much about a pressing issue, the concerns about South Sudan, and what the world should be doing to work towards rehabilitation.”
On the second and final day of the conference, the main committees finished discussing the resolutions and there was a General Plenary Session where everyone gathered to discuss the resolutions and amendments that passed. The conference concluded with closing ceremonies.
“MUN was a great experience. It helped me learn about world affairs and pragmatic international reforms,” Frances Mackinnon, junior, said.
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