Outline of Conference

Debate/Speeches

*** This is where a Model UN Conference starts.***

***Look at your "Proper Procedures" paper for help.***

• First comes a "General Debate"
  
  • During the General Debate of the caucus, each team will give a speech. The speech will come from the position paper
    
    • (Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqVCJk1FkI)
      

      
       

  • Your speech should have...
    
    • Introduction
      
      • Introduce topic & give your country policy.
        
    • Country Background
      
      • Explain how your country is affect by the topic.
        
    • Topic Background
      
      • Do not spend too much time on the history of the problem,
        
      • However, you should mention...
        
        • past UN resolutions that address the problem
          
        • why your country is involved with the problem
          
        • what your country has done to fix the problem in the past.
          
        • involvement with the problem.
          
    • You DO NOT WANT TO PROPOSE SOLUTIONS during this speech.
      
      • You will propose solutions at the "Substantive Debate."
        
    • During General Debate, you also want to learn who will support your policy and who will not.
      
      • Listen closely to what other delegates say.
        
      • Think about what bloc you and other countries are in.
        
      • Plan who you are going to make allies with during caucus.
        

        
         

  • See Sample speech (Example D) When you give your speech during the general debate portion, remember to...
    
    • read your speech from your position paper.
      
    • speak on behalf of your country
      
      • Brazil feels that...
        
    • take a deep breath before you begin.
      
    • be confident.
      
    • speak from your stomach.
      
    • thank the chairman/chairwoman for the opportunity to speak.
      

    
     

    
     

    
     

    
     

***Guest Speakers***

*** During the opening speeches, every country will include speeches based upon their position papers. Sometimes you will show videos to help make your argument. But sometimes, the committee chairs of individual nations will also ask a guest speaker to address the committee.

• A guess speaker should be someone who is/has…
  
  • experienced, firsthand, situation that deals w/ your committee.
    
    • If you are talking about economic development, bring in someone who is living in an area that is undeveloped and poor.
      
    • If you are talking about nuclear disarmament, bring in someone who lived through Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or Chernoybyl.
      
  • qualified to speak on the subject. Such as…
    
    • If you are talking about economic development, bring in a Nobel Prize winning economist
      
    • If you are talking about problems from nuclear weapons, bring in a nuclear scientist.
      

EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wOH2rDtS1Y

Dalai Lama giving a speech at the United Nations

1. After everyone has given their speech, the committee will have a caucus.
   

Step 4.) Caucus

1. A caucus is where the group members address ideas and negotiate what actions must be taken. It comes in between General Debate and Substantive Debate.
   
   1. In a caucus, each delegate goes and talks to other countries and discusses what they think about the issue.
      
      1. Caucus time is ONLY 5 – 10 MINUTES, so you must BE QUICK & ORGANIZED.
         
      2. (youtube clip)
         
   2. During caucuses you (the delegates) discuss policy with other countries and begin writing resolutions.
      
      1. Resolutions are documents written by countries that list actions that should be taken in order to solve the problem.
         
      2. At the end of the conference, everyone will vote on resolutions.
         
      3. During caucus, your country should be trying to find other countries that you think will vote for your resolution.
         
      4. Basically, during caucus time, you are trying to FIND ALLIES!
         
         1. We will go more into resolutions later, but you most know something about them in order to know what caucus is.
            
   3. Your caucus strategy should be something like this...
      
      1. What is our country trying to do?
         
      2. Which bloc should we look to for help?
         
      3. Which individual countries from other blocs can we persuade to be our allies?
         
      4. How much will we have to compromise with other countries in order to get what we want?
         

         
          

   4. Caucusing is like meeting up with your friends and discussing where you will go to eat. Do you want KFC? Zhen bao? Bao zi?
      
      1. When you are discussing where you want to eat, you are caucusing.
         
      2. The restaurant you choose is the winning resolution.
         
2. As a committee, you will decide which type of caucus to have. There are three types.
   
   1. Informal caucus
      
   2. Moderated caucus
      
   3. ***Formal Caucus***
      
3. After the caucus you will write and vote on resolutions