Model United Nations, generally referred to as Model UN (MUN) is one of the most popular ways to learn about the United Nations (UN).
MUN was established only a few years after the UN was created
The first time that a MUN conference was co-sponsored by the UN was in August 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York.
Educational institutions hold MUN conferences so students can hold UN-style debates and conversations.
The UN later organized three GMUN (Global MUN) conferences in 2009 - 2011.
The Outreach Division of the UN Department of Global Communications (UNDGC) decided to launch a series of workshops to give students and MUN advisors a basic understanding of:
The discussion and action phases of GA Committee meetings,
How to draft and review resolutions,
The duties and responsibilities of the GA and UN Secretariat officials
How to capture the relationship between these two main organs within MUN conferences
The role of consensus in making decisions, and how consensus is achieved.
The main motivation for organizing these workshops is to train MUN advisors in a new approach that more accurately represents the way the UN functions, as well as deepen students' knowledge of diplomacy and the critical role it plays at the UN.
