Training

Use the following documents, power-points, and pdfs for your own benefit. They can be great tools for class or your own personal development.

Framing-the-Debate (371)
How-to-MUN (409)
Psychology of MUN (397)

If you would like any additional help or training outside of meetings please email us at adia@fsuwap.org and we can set up a time and place to meet.

Large Committee Tactics:
It may seem obvious, but familiarizing yourself with previous resolutions on your topic can make a world of difference. Specifically, pay attention to the scope of past resolutions and specific agency cited within them. This can give you a good framework for your resolution and also can provide you with the sometimes crucial knowledge of how your specific issue is handled by the international community.
Read opinion and academic articles regarding the subject. Often times such works can provide you with unique ideas and solutions to issues for a working paper or resolution.

Crisis Committee Tactics:
Crisis Simulation is the advanced Model U.N. environment in which delegates participate as an individual rather than a State. Typically committees consist of nation-State cabinets, intergovernmental organizations (NATO, OCSE, UNSC), or a historical situations. These committees are much more interactive than the traditional model committee. Delegates are often afforded director type control over their position’s office. Delegates are expected to communicate with home governments, cooperate with colleagues, and issue orders to subordinates. This type of environment will test ones skills in all areas of political and personal leadership, from policy knowledge to personal relations with others to the delegates’ presence in committee.

Two way communication and judging is normally facilitated by conference staff; which are a number of secretariat members totally devoted to a single committee’s operation. This includes responding to home government notes, delivery of news information, and evaluation of a delegate’s performance.

Nation-State Cabinets:
Intergovernmental Organizations:
Historical Situations: