June 1st Mini MUN Conference Info

We will begin our Mini MUN Conference tmorrow, June 1st. I will be the chair (since we don't have enough people and because giving you 5 countries AND the responsibility of chair would be really cruel). You all have five countries. You should know your countries position by the time of this conference. For today, June 1st, we will focus mainly on how to use proper procedures during the Speaker's List, Moderated Caucus, and Unmoderated (Informal) Caucus. Next week we will write, draft, and amend resolutions and then vote on them.

Jia you!

Mr. Gibson

P.S. Your homework is to...1.) write a Caucus Outline which includes a list of topics you would like to discuss.2.) write your Opening Speeches. Make them 30 seconds to one minute long. The information should come from your position papers. 3.) fill out your Entrance Fee and return it to Mr. Gibson before 3:10 P.M. on the day of the conference.

Writing Resolutions

We start writing rough Draft Resolutions (literally, resolution rough drafts) after we have a couple rounds of General Debate and Informal Caucus. At this point and time, you should be aware of two things...

1.) What is my countries position and objective?
2.) Who agrees with my countries' position and objective?

At first, you only write a Draft Resolution. It is highly unlikely that your Draft Resolution will work as your final draft. Later on, while you are caucusing with other delegates, you will begin Resolution Amending. More on that later. However, this is the first step towards writing your final, official Resolution which will then be voted on (and hopefully, passed).

For more help, follow this link. it has some good tips and extra advice about how to write a resolution.

Resolution Amending

OK, now you should have finished your resolution. Unfortunately, your resolution only works for your respective country. It is highly unlikely that your resolution will work for 50% + 1 of the countries. Therefore, you will need to amend your resolution. Amending means changing a legal document. The best strategy is to find other delegates and look for ways to make compromises so that you will have more people supporting the amendment that you want to see passed. At the same time, you don't want to compromise so much that your country does not want.

Voting

Once resolutions are finished being amended, they will be brought up to the chairs in order to be voted upon. At this point and time, there should only be two, or maybe three, resolutions to vote on. (The more resolutions there are, the harder it will be to get one passed.)

At this point, it's pretty simple. Each country gets one vote. You either vote for your favorite resolution or you abstain (meaning you don't vote for anything). Make sure you know ahead of time which resolution you want to vote for. If a resolution gets 50% of the delegates + 1 then it passes.

Suspension of Debate

Here is how you suspend debate. Notice how the chairs do not stop it. One of the individual delegates must move to suspend debate. Then, the chair asks the room to vote on whether or not they would like to suspend the debate. If over 50% of the people want to suspend the debate, then the debate is suspended for the day or, if it is the last day, then the conference is finished.